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HTC EVO Handbrake Settings with Video

Are you using FFMPEG or H.264? Also what audio bitrate?

I'm not sold on the 1500kbs setting, at least for DVDs.
I don't have an Evo but that hasn't stopped me from converting.
I found, for DVDs, that "Constant Quality: set at 61% will give the same file size as 1500 and be a touch clearer.

But with that said there's so many settings in HandBrake it's hard to say exactly what else could have cause the "blur".
 
fr4nk1yn said:
Are you using FFMPEG or H.264? Also what audio bitrate?

I'm not sold on the 1500kbs setting, at least for DVDs.
I don't have an Evo but that hasn't stopped me from converting.
I found, for DVDs, that "Constant Quality: set at 61% will give the same file size as 1500 and be a touch clearer.

But with that said there's so many settings in HandBrake it's hard to say exactly what else could have cause the "blur".
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I used the settings posted on XDA. It's the same settings as for the Nexus 1 with an increase in width. The file ended up being 1.25GB, which is large. But the video quality is excellent.
 
shadrap said:
This is an AVI that I changed to an MP4 with Handbrake. I also give the settings I used. The video quality is great


are you taking movies straight from dvd or burning then to your hard drive first then using handbrake?
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i can't get the pixels past 720w on handbrake...would like to get it to 800...anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
 
Quick question. I just downloaded Handbreak and am trying to convert an .avi file. It won't let me change the width to more than 624, it that because the file I'm using or am I doing something wrong? I clicked on the "Classic" preset. I'm usually not this stupid, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
 
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Check to make sure you don't have "Auto Crop" or "Loose Crop" checked.
Both of those will change the resolution you manually typed in, "Auto Crop" more so.
 
I don't have my Evo yet but I've always found CloneDVD easier and better than Handbrake. Of course, it ain't free and ain't open source.

I may go back and check out HB, though. That video looks crazy nice.
 
How do you get CloneDVD to rip to MP4, or any mobile format?
I still boot into Windows to "backup" a DVD witn CloneDVD but it nor CloneDVD Mobile can compare to HandBrake.

MediaCoder iPhone Editionis also a great program once you configure it and IF you use Windows.
 
^yes i'm trying to dvd rip....which in itself is troublesome...i'm guessing handbrake doesn't have the ability to bypass the copy protection cuz it scans forever to no avail
 
is it ok for me to keep the codec setting on h.264?....i thought i saw somewhere that the evo didn't support this codec, not sure tho
 
I get way too caught up in this stuff.
I just converted a scene from a DVD numerous times and there's not much difference.
What you may gain in one area you lose in another:

comparisone.png

File sizes where similar. 35mb (61%) vs 34mb (1500kbs).


    • Picture:
    • width: 800 height:?
    • keep aspect ratio.
    • *still testing "auto crop" & "loose crop", depends if you like letterbox or not.
      May also stretch the video vertically.
    • Video:
    • H.264
    • framerate: same
    • Constant Quality: 61% or Bitrate:1500, I would not use target size, both will be very similar.
    • Audio:
    • AAC
    • bitrate: 160
    • sample rate: 48
    • mixdown: stereo or Dolby Pro Logic II (I've had no problems on my Pre using Dolby).

I've attached my settings.
 

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fr4nk1yn said:
I get way too caught up in this stuff.
I just converted a scene from a DVD numerous times and there's not much difference.
What you may gain in one area you lose in another:

comparisone.png

File sizes where similar. 35mb (61%) vs 34mb (1500kbs).


    • Picture:
    • width: 800 height:?
    • keep aspect ratio.
    • *still testing "auto crop" & "loose crop", depends if you like letterbox or not.
      May also stretch the video vertically.
    • Video:
    • H.264
    • framerate: same
    • Constant Quality: 61% or Bitrate:1500, I would not use target size, both will be very similar.
    • Audio:
    • AAC
    • bitrate: 160
    • sample rate: 48
    • mixdown: stereo or Dolby Pro Logic II (I've had no problems on my Pre using Dolby).
I've attached my settings.
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Nice work, wanna test the "Dual pass" setting? It's supposed to increase quality (without increasing file size).
 
legacy said:
Nice work, wanna test the "Dual pass" setting? It's supposed to increase quality (without increasing file size).
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My computer tends to overheat on a two pass encode, which is odd cause it can sit batch converting overnight no problems.

I just tried it with a Turbo First Pass, BTW this can only be set after setting the bitrate.
Quality is notably sharper. It really can't be seen in the screen shot but as the sand is flowing its certainly sharper. File size is .4mb larger than 61% constant.
I used the same settings I posted just changed to 1500kbs bitrate and then 2-pass with turbo. I'm changing my preset.

-edit: Just noticed I mistakingly changed to FFMPEG. I thought it was encoding too fast.
I let the cat out and it was done.
Encoded again this time with H.264 it took longer, encoding at 21fps instead of 120fps. I have a dual core 4200+ A64 jammed in an old Acer slim PC.
FFMPEG is what made it better.
BTW I'm using Linux, I've noticed that there's a small difference between Linux, Windows and Macs as far as encoding even with the same codec. Don't know why.

Question: I've always encoded with bars, letterbox, so that the aspect ratio isn't stretched while playing back. Any ideas if the Evo will do the same stretching without the bars in place. Perhaps playing back NOT in fullscreen?
 
Did a lot more encoding today and I can say that almost no matter how you encode with Handbrake results will be very similar.
I've changed my settings again, takes a long time to encode but I picked up a touch of clarity that I'll never see on the Evo I'm sure.

Also added a preset for re-encoding torrents that may not be top quality that will encode over 3x realtime so all my playing is not for naught.
 
fr4nk1yn said:
    • Picture:
    • width: 800 height:?
    • keep aspect ratio.
    • *still testing "auto crop" & "loose crop", depends if you like letterbox or not.
      May also stretch the video vertically.
    • Video:
    • H.264
    • framerate: same
    • Constant Quality: 61% or Bitrate:1500, I would not use target size, both will be very similar.
    • Audio:
    • AAC
    • bitrate: 160
    • sample rate: 48
    • mixdown: stereo or Dolby Pro Logic II (I've had no problems on my Pre using Dolby).

I've attached my settings.
Click to expand...

Anyone besides me having trouble opening that file? WinZip reports it as corrupt.
 
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