

Please note this is very much a work in progress but this is the best I have found so far. = 6.43 ie 6430, however higher than 5000 is not necessary = 1200 / xsize_in_k_pixels /y_size_in_k_pixels / duration_minutesįor example a 1920 x 1080 movie of 90 minutes : the full filename for the converted avi file. the full filename for the MKV ripped movie To be honest 3500 is about the limit if the movie has lots of night scenes since these tend to show the compression artifacts.

The higher the value the better the quality but the larger the file. the bitrate a value somewhere between 30. include if you wish to trim off the ending titles, use VLC to determine the time include if the movie needs to be scaled to bring the size down Mencoder -oac faac -faacopts object=2:tns:br=384 -sws 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=:vhq:vpass=1 "" -o "" Use the following command line to compress the movie to an AVI file (universally playable.so far) : This step only takes about 5 minutes.honest.ĭ.

Reason : sometimes this forcing seems to get lost, no idea why. Sometimes it can be really painful to get the right one although it typically tends to be the first forced version NB ONLY the forced track.unless it is a foreign language film.ī Play the ripped blu-ray using VLC under PCLOS to check the correct subtitle track has been selected.Ĭ Use MKV Files Creator (in the repos) to create a brand new MKV track which will be the same huge size! However you make sure that the subtitle "forced" option is ticked. (NB Handbrake does not correctly recognise the subtitles of the ripped blu-ray )Ī Use MkV to rip the blu-ray but this time select one of the english subtitle tracks. I have a folder in home called XPShare which is setup from the windows virtual machine as a shared drive (its called XPShare because its the same folder I used when I had an XP virtual machine)Ī use MakeMKV to rip the blu-ray to the shared folderī Use Handbrake in PClos world to compress the movie, a little adjusting of quality, sizes and trimming of end titles to get it less than 4Gb. I use makeMKV but installed under windows7 as a virtual(box) machine. Just to add my sixpenneth with some additional video compression discoveries (sorry if it reads a bit note like but these are my notes!).
