Comments on: Using Handbrake to Encode Videos for XBox 360 Playback

By: pconwell

pconwell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:21:17 +0000

I just want to clarify. Yes, the settings say stereo, but a PRO II receiver should be able to give you 5.1 surround sound.

By: pconwell

pconwell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:19:24 +0000

I've been able to get x264 with 5.1 Dolby Pro II with the following settings for handbrakeCLI. (Not sure how to do the settings exactly in the GUI version.) The "$z" part is a variable for the file name from a script I wrote.


HandBrakeCLI -e x264 -x bframes=2:subme=6:mixed-refs=0:weightb=0:8x8dct=0:trellis=0:ref=2 -q .51 -5 -E faac -B 96 -R 44.1 -6 stereo -D 1.0 -i ./"$z" -o ./"$z".m4v;

Here is the complete script. It is for converting .avi files, but you should be able to easily adjust the script as necessary:


#!/bin/bash
#

LIST='*.avi'
for z in $LIST; do
   HandBrakeCLI -e x264 -x bframes=2:subme=6:mixed-refs=0:weightb=0:8x8dct=0:trellis=0:ref=2 -q .51 -5 -E faac -B 96 -R 44.1 -6 stereo -D 1.0 -i ./"$z" -o ./"$z".m4v; #does the conversion
   mv "$z.m4v" "`basename "$z.m4v" .avi.m4v`.m4v"; #cleans up file names
   rm $z; #delete old file
done;

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:42:36 +0000

This is rather complex stuff. It seems very few people use the x264 format. Handbrake gives an alert when you slide the quality for h.264 encoding all the way to the highest, and it says it becomes x264 and warns that a lot of software won’t play it. I don’t know what software will. You talk about the xbox, but is there any software? How about the ps3, do you know? You’re one of the few people to post about this encoding that I found.