![]() I'd like to revisit some titles to try and improve this. The only detrimental thing I have found to be noticeable from typical viewing distance (actually I am closer to my display than I should be) is banding appears to become exacerbated by the added compression. It's very interesting how good the transcodes look. Likewise, films like Chris Nolan's IMAX movies where the aspect ratio shifts you need to ensure you are transcoding the full 1920x1080 in handbrake because handbrake's automatic cropping looks for commonality and if it sees a movie like Dark Knight it will say "ok, MOST of this movie is 2.35:1, so I'll crop for that" but in doing so it will end up cropping the full screen IMAX sequences, so in those cases you need to let it encode the black bars for the 2.35:1 scenes. You'll also want to know whether a movie uses any generated subtitles or not as you'll need to mark those out in MakeMKV, and then burn them in via handbrake (Captain America 2 for example as ONE line of French dialogue that is generated and you need to find the right subtitle track for). If you go back through this crazy thread you'll no doubt find my experiments with a few titles at even higher bitrates like 12mbps, 16mbps and so on. I had the space, but I did a lot at Don's 'best' 8mbps and it is excellent too (and is still better than what iTunes and Netflix give us). I went one step further than Don Melton and Cam and did the majority of my films at 10mbps. My biggest take away from doing all this is that it pays to know your content, what it looks like, whether there is a lot of action or not. Personally ripped and '-trailer' tagged trailers are still not showing up though, and the audio menu during playback is still faulty. 'Play' button has been moved to the front of the queue on the pre-play screen ahead of the trailers tab now, and the tick selection on the audio tracks that I highlighted as a bug on the pre-play menu is also fixed. I noticed Plex ATV seemed to get an update. Episodes 1, 2 and even 4 came off the disc just fine. This week however, episode 3 on disc 3 of Deadwood just will not rip no matter how many times I try. I'd had issues with ripping the occasional StudioCanal disc like Under the Skin over the summer, but after multiple attempts I could get it to work again. I also encountered the first MakeMKV bug I cannot seem to overcome this week. Going to have to do that one all over again. My transcode of Faces seems to have vanished in the process of moving it off the macbook and onto the library on the PC. ![]() I'm hoping the Harry Potter 'Hogwarts Collection' mega set Amazon sell will show up in the black friday deals as it's £90 (31 discs thanks to the inclusion of DVDs jacking up the price). 1:1 rips on the server just would not have been financially feasible at this time as a result, though it is still my end goal perhaps in a year or two. I'm going to be over 600 by the end of the year. I can't believe how many discs I actually own. I still don't own Gremlins (and did Gremlins 2 ever get a Blu-ray release in the UK? I'll have to import if not).
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