- #Using makemkv and handbrake for plex 720p#
- #Using makemkv and handbrake for plex tv#
- #Using makemkv and handbrake for plex download#
#Using makemkv and handbrake for plex download#
Or just download my preset for all the above settings.
#Using makemkv and handbrake for plex tv#
I pass-through the AC3 audio for my Apple TV and add a second audio track in AAC format for viewing on the phone, and any and all of the subtitle tracks because once they’re text they will use next to no disk space, so why not? In the subtitle tab, hit ‘selection behaviour’ and choose “Track Selection Behaviour: All Matching Selected Languages” and “Languages: (Any)”.
#Using makemkv and handbrake for plex 720p#
I only have a 720p projector so I don’t bother with full HD, I set set the quality rather than the bitrate to constant at RF24.
(We’re going with MKV rather than m4v here because the former supports bitmap subtitles and the latter doesn’t – but we’ll be converting to m4v further down the line – and without support for the subtitles tracks we’d have to ditch them or burn them in, losing the ability to turn them on and off).
Choose (or create) a preset that outputs H.264 video in an MKV wrapper, with all of the subtitles. Go to Handbrake, click “Open Source” and select this combined folder. Now all of your files have unique names, you can stick them in the same folder. (And before you hit the “Rename” button it’s worth going to Preferences and ticking the “Hide extensions by default” box or you’ll get persistently nagged about this. Add all the files to NameChanger app in sequence, and in the Sequence Name box type “Show Name – sXXe” before digits. Rip each disc to its own folder using MakeMKV – titles are not re-encoded but dumped into an MKV file – so one for each episode. So I found an app that did that automatically, discovered a long-standing (but unknown to me) batch add option in Handbrakes, and as a finishing touch found there is a queue feature in Subler to both add the metadata and OCR the subtitle files (which are bitmaps on DVD, and thus unsupported by iThings which only allow optional subtitles to be stored as text).Īnd here’s the process I use for both DVD and Bluray, based on doing a season of a TV show at a time: (I ripped DVDs with MakeMKV even though Handbrake could do both because ripping is fast and then you can leave Handbrake to encode overnight – otherwise you have to be on hand to change discs.) I still use both of these brilliant pieces of software, but I found myself spending a lot of time copying and pasting file names and such (which need to be in a Show Name – sXXeXX format for the likes of iFlicks or Plex to fetch you metadata). I used to just rip with MakeMKV and encode with Handbrake. preserving subtitles) so I thought it worth writing down – this may be quite a technical post and not for everyone, but I know at least will appreciate it! My workflow for ripping TV shows in particular has developed over the years, both to speed things up and to enhance the results (e.g. 
If, like me, you have both an unassailable dedication to physical media for your video (and music) and yet you wish to play them on your iThings then there’s a fair chance you spend some of your time ripping stuff from the shiny disks and encoding it on hard drives.
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