Server is running on Windows 10 desktop with second-generation i7 processor. My use case is transferring DVD and Blu-ray discs to a USB3 drive attached to the computer. I use Teamviewer to control a Samsung S2 tablet beside my impaired daughter’s nursing home bed. I play something on that tablet’s Plex app, then Chromecast it to a Google Chromecast dongle plugged into an HDMI port on her 40 inch TV 5 feet above the tablet.
I use MakeMKV to create the MKV file. Then I use handbrake (the Fast 1080P30 preset) to create an MP4 file. All goes well if I have started with a Blu-ray disc. But sometimes, and only sometimes, if I have started with a DVD, the resulting MP4 file will play with constant interruptions. First there is a one second black screen, then followed by about 5 seconds worth of movie, followed by a two or three second black screen, and then with the movie proceeding. That repeats every two or three minutes. If I am playing the movie over my local home LAN onto my 50 inch TV, it is of course a distraction. But if I have played it on my daughter’s television through the tablet and Chromecast, it often forces a disconnection which I don’t discover until the next time I sign on to check progress of her movie. So she has then been sitting there looking at a blank screen.
I tried also using the Fast 720P30 preset on the MKV file. But same result. In the meantime, if I play directly from the MKV file, all is well. I suppose I could just make it a policy to store DVDs as MKV files. But I’m sure there must be a solution to this.
Does anyone have any ideas? I would rather not get into the weeds on handbrake settings. It would be great if some preset would work.
Many times DVDs have video streams that are interlaced. This can cause many issues. Are you checking the DVD streams to see if they’re interlaced? If so, and they are, are you de-interlacing them?
MPEG-2 Streams are also troublesome - but surely you aren’t encoding to an MPEG-2 Stream - surely.
Without seeing a MediaInfo report for one of these files you make there’s no way to diagnose the issue, but you could just get the latest Handbrake, run another encode, de-interlacing if necessary - using these EXACT SETTINGS and see if anything different happens:
HD Section above
DVD Section below <—filters are where de-interlacing occurs and MediaInfo is where you see if they are interlaced/MPEG-2/Other
Here’s what a report looks like (pre-formatted text modifier post option):
General
ID : 1 (0x1)
Complete name : G:\Other Videos\Daryl Hall & John Oates Live in Dublin (2015)\Daryl Hall & John Oates Live in Dublin (2015).ts
Format : MPEG-TS
File size : 3.10 GiB
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 7 696 kb/s
Law rating : TV-G
Video
ID : 49 (0x31)
Menu ID : 3 (0x3)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High
Format settings : CustomMatrix / BVOP
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : Variable
Codec ID : 2
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 928 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 24.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Active Format Description : Full frame 16:9 image
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.111
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Open
Stream size : 2.79 GiB (90%)
Audio #1
ID : 52 (0x34)
Menu ID : 3 (0x3)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 8 ms
Stream size : 79.1 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Audio #2
ID : 53 (0x35)
Menu ID : 3 (0x3)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 8 ms
Stream size : 79.1 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Text #1
ID : 49 (0x31)-CC1
Menu ID : 3 (0x3)
Format : EIA-608
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
CaptionServiceName : CC1
Text #2
ID : 49 (0x31)-1
Menu ID : 3 (0x3)
Format : EIA-708
Muxing mode : A/53 / DTVCC Transport
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 57 min 36 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
We can’t see that’s interlaced, but we can assume so since it’s in an MPEG-2 stream and I recorded it myself… It’s absolutely interlaced…lol
DVD material can NOT be encoded using settings for HD material.
You need a DVD Profile - shown above
You need an HD Profile - if encoding HD material - shown above
