Good Day Everyone,
I need a little help. This will be a bit lengthy, but I want to describe how I got here.
I've been ripping/encoding DVDs for a few years now. Handbrake has been my tool of choice with the h264 video codec and the AAC audio codecs doing very well for me over the years. Then I got a new 60" vizio smart TV for Christmas. My goal is to serve up all my movies via a DLNA server and stream to the TV. I've been running into a lot of road blocks though and am looking to the experts on this forum for help.
While my h264 videos work fine when loaded on a USB drive and attached directly to the TV, I cannot get them to stream via a DLNA server...unless they are shorter than about 23 minutes and 15 seconds. Any videos longer than that cause the TV to spit out audio and video codec errors, even though the same codecs (h264/AAC) work fine (gorgeous picture quality across all 60" of the TV) if they're shorter than the time mentioned above. I'm still researching/fighting that issue (anyone have any thoughts on that one?), but in the meantime, I've been exploring other codecs.
The Xvid codec seems to work fine (USB and DLNA streaming). I am using autoGK for encoding from my DVD VOBs and have taken all the defaults so far. The codecs play fine, but I am having issues with the video quality. I am seeing "blockiness" around the motion in the frame, especially when on the TV. Before I go tweaking settings, I'm looking for some help in determining what settings I might need to tweak. I am looking for the same (or at least nearly the same) video quality I have on the h264 codec videos I get from Handbrake. Movie size doesn't matter much since I have plenty of hard-drive space.
I have attached the autoGK log and a small sample of the "blockiness" I'm talking about.
So, that's where I'm at. Any advice/help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill Anderson
I need a little help. This will be a bit lengthy, but I want to describe how I got here.
I've been ripping/encoding DVDs for a few years now. Handbrake has been my tool of choice with the h264 video codec and the AAC audio codecs doing very well for me over the years. Then I got a new 60" vizio smart TV for Christmas. My goal is to serve up all my movies via a DLNA server and stream to the TV. I've been running into a lot of road blocks though and am looking to the experts on this forum for help.
While my h264 videos work fine when loaded on a USB drive and attached directly to the TV, I cannot get them to stream via a DLNA server...unless they are shorter than about 23 minutes and 15 seconds. Any videos longer than that cause the TV to spit out audio and video codec errors, even though the same codecs (h264/AAC) work fine (gorgeous picture quality across all 60" of the TV) if they're shorter than the time mentioned above. I'm still researching/fighting that issue (anyone have any thoughts on that one?), but in the meantime, I've been exploring other codecs.
The Xvid codec seems to work fine (USB and DLNA streaming). I am using autoGK for encoding from my DVD VOBs and have taken all the defaults so far. The codecs play fine, but I am having issues with the video quality. I am seeing "blockiness" around the motion in the frame, especially when on the TV. Before I go tweaking settings, I'm looking for some help in determining what settings I might need to tweak. I am looking for the same (or at least nearly the same) video quality I have on the h264 codec videos I get from Handbrake. Movie size doesn't matter much since I have plenty of hard-drive space.
I have attached the autoGK log and a small sample of the "blockiness" I'm talking about.
So, that's where I'm at. Any advice/help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill Anderson