Handbreak
Handbrake, Apple TV and iPhone/iPod Touch
17 July 2008; 21:29 Filed in:
Posted by: Glyn Evans (Editor)
Sometime ago whilst communicating with Barry
Ward (prior to him joining the team)
regarding the Apple TV, Barry emailed me his
custom Handbrake settings, which
allows you to rip your
DVD's for playback on the Apple TV and the
iPhone/iPod Touch, with out having to have 2
ripped versions of the DVD. With all the iPhone
events over the past week, I forgot to post the
settings, so here they are for all you Apple TV
users out there.
This is the main page. Pay attention to the bitrate and encoder. Notice the output isn't much different from the source. Deinterlace is off as it isn't needed in this case (indeed it is only needed for most tv show dvd's) -
Here are the audio settings -
And here are the advanced options. These must be followed exactly. I borrowed the Advanced Option String from the iPhone settings (Apple TV has a different string). I also copied the rest of the values in this tab from the iPhone settings. I think it is due to these settings being different with the 2 built in presets that videos using the Apple TV setting don't work on the iPhone/Touch.
Here are the picture settings for this particular dvd-
Films with a 2.35:1 ratio tend to have a resolution of (usually over 700)x304. But I like to trim the ends off so it will fill the screen a little more, so I like to end up with a resolution of 688x304 (cropping by about 10-12 each side). This is just personal preference of course.
To get these settings I selected the Apple TV preset, and adjusted all the values to the above, and saved it as a new preset, making it the default one too.
This is the main page. Pay attention to the bitrate and encoder. Notice the output isn't much different from the source. Deinterlace is off as it isn't needed in this case (indeed it is only needed for most tv show dvd's) -
Here are the audio settings -
And here are the advanced options. These must be followed exactly. I borrowed the Advanced Option String from the iPhone settings (Apple TV has a different string). I also copied the rest of the values in this tab from the iPhone settings. I think it is due to these settings being different with the 2 built in presets that videos using the Apple TV setting don't work on the iPhone/Touch.
Here are the picture settings for this particular dvd-
Films with a 2.35:1 ratio tend to have a resolution of (usually over 700)x304. But I like to trim the ends off so it will fill the screen a little more, so I like to end up with a resolution of 688x304 (cropping by about 10-12 each side). This is just personal preference of course.
To get these settings I selected the Apple TV preset, and adjusted all the values to the above, and saved it as a new preset, making it the default one too.
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