Instead, when I try to click on the audibook it opens the list to chapters (and it will even show the 'now playing' signal by which chapter I'm on), but when I click that chapter, it starts over from the beginning of the chapter. Do you work on a Mac or a PC? I'm familiar with ways of doing it on a Mac; I'll leave PC details to others. On a Mac, you can add chapter markers during compression to MP4, either with Compressor or with Adobe Media Encoder.
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Set up names separately and link them in your the stories. This makes them easier to change later. Each chapters progress is stored as a different versions. In the paid version you will be able to go back and see old versions of the stories. Export the stories.
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Creating software to extract video from the copy-protection system used on DVDs is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)âeven if you're doing it only to extract video from your personal DVD collection for your own use.
Common sense would say that it's ethical for you to move the video from DVDs you have purchased onto your own devices for your own personal use. (We're also quite sure it's flat-out wrong to rip video from DVDs you've rented or borrowed, or to give video files you've converted from your own DVDs to a friend.) But common sense and the law don't always intersect. Some court rulings suggest that it's not unlawful to circumvent DVD protection for non-infringing purposes; on the other hand, the Motion Picture Association of America maintains that any DVD ripping violates the DMCA.
So what's a Mac user to do? Because the law is not completely clear on this matter, every user will need to personally assess the risks involved in ripping DVDs they own for personal use. For all other cases, however, we encourage you to do the right thing and buy a legal copy.
From the top
Weâll work our way from the top of the HandBrake interface to the bottom, pointing out useful features along the way.
Title When you insert a DVD or load a Video_TS folder from a DVD that contains a feature-length movie, HandBrake will automatically choose the portion it believes to be the main feature. But click the Title pop-up menu and youâll likely see some other entries. Much of these reflect parts of the disc youâre not interested inâFBI warnings or an opening logo, for example. But some of the longer entries might be previews or extra content. How to tell? From this menu choose an entry other than the one selected by HandBrake and click on the Picture Settings button near the bottom of the window. In the resulting sheet, youâll see a preview of the selected content. If that preview shows the FBI logo, you can safely move on to a different entry.
If, instead, youâre ripping a DVD full of TV episodes, youâll want to rip more than just the single episode recommended by HandBrake. Before you begin, choose HandBrake -> Preferences and in the General preference enable the Use Auto Naming option. This ensures that each episode will have a unique name.
Now click on the Title pop-up menu and select an episode. Configure your settings, and click on the Add to Queue button. Repeat these steps for all episodes on the disc. Because youâve enabled the Auto Naming option, each will have a unique name. (Without that option on, thereâs the danger that youâll overwrite one episode with another because they bear the same name.) Click on Start and HandBrake will encode each episode in the queue.
Chapters Itâs a good bet that a movieâs credits will be found in its last chapter. If youâd like to do without these credits, choose the penultimate chapter from the second chapter pop-up menu. So, for example, if a movie has 32 chapter, choose 31 from the second pop-up menu. When you rip the disc, that last chapter wonât be included in the final product.
Format HandBrake can output video in four different container formatsâMP4, MKV, AVI, and OGM. For those using Appleâs media players (QuickTime, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV) there isnât a good reason for using any container format other than MP4.
The Video tab
Select the Video tab and you find settings for controlling the encoding of a movieâs video settings.
Video Codec Each container format supports its own collection of encoders. Weâll concentrate on those offered with MP4. HandBrake supports three encoders for its MP4 filesâMPEG-4 (FFmpeg), MPEG-4 (XviD), and H.264 (x264). FFmpeg is faster than XviD, but you pay for that speed with a slight compromise in quality. H.264âthe default setting used for many of HandBrakeâs presetsâproduces good looking results at low bit rates. But itâs slower to encode than the other two encoders and requires more processing power from the device that plays the video. If youâre creating video for an old computer and find H.264 playback choppy, try FFmpeg or XviD.
Framerate You can reduce the size of your movie by cutting its framerate but youâll suffer some quality loss in the process as your video can be choppier than it would be at the original framerate. None of HandBrakeâs presets do this, but if youâd like to give it a go because you have very little storage space to work with, choose a different framerate from the Framerate (FPS) pop-up menu. For best results, choose a framerate that fits into the original neatly. For example, 15 fps for a 30 fps (29.97) source.
2-pass encoding When, in HandBrakeâs Quality area, youâve chosen either the Target Size or Average Bit rate settings (discussed shortly), a 2-pass encoding option appears within the Video tab. Enable this setting and HandBrake will run through your movie twice. The first time, it records information about the density of information within the videoâs frames. On the second pass, it uses that information to better allocate bit rates during the encoding process, resulting in better-looking video. The downside is that 2-pass encoding takes twice as long. To speed it up (and lose a measure of quality), enable the Turbo First Pass option, that knocks 50 â 75-percent of the encoding time off the first pass.
Quality The settings in HandBrakeâs Quality area are where you can make a real difference in the size of your resulting movie and, of course, its quality. Enable Target Size and you can tell HandBrake how big youâd like the resulting movie to be. (The larger the file size, the better the quality.) The Average Bit rate (kbps) option works the other way around. You tell HandBrake what youâd like the average bit rate to be and it creates a movie whose bit rate hovers around that size. (Be sure to check the capabilities of the destination device in this regard. A bit rate of 2500kbps looks good on an Apple TV but is too much for an iPod.) Again, the higher the bit rate the better the quality and the larger the resulting movie.
The Constant Quality slider is your way of telling HandBrake, âI want the resulting movie to be X good.â HandBrake then does everything it can to grant your wish, but âeverything it canâ may result in a movie that consumes a lot of storage if youâve chosen a high quality setting or one that won't be compatible with a device such as an iPod because its bit rate is too high.
Picture Settings
Within the Picture Settings sheet (accessed by clicking the Pictures Settings button) you can preview frames from the video and change its look. These are your options.
Size You use this option to reduce the dimensions of your movie (you canât increase its size using the arrow buttons next to the Width and Height fields). For a widescreen movie, the Width will be 720. The Height number will vary, depending on the source. Enable the Keep Aspect Ratio option and reduce the Width or Height setting and the other setting will follow, maintaining the same aspect ratio as the source movie.
You also have the option to choose Anamorphic encoding. Choose Strict or Loose from the Anamorphic pop-up menu, and the dimensions of the movie increase. The Strict option ensures that the aspect ratio conforms exactly to the ratio of the original movie. A Loose setting alters the dimensions so they are more efficiently encoded.
Overcast app for mac. Overcast is a free, third-party podcast app for iPhone and iPad (and technically, the web). Designed around making listening to podcasts easy and enjoyable, Overcast is all about quality and speed. For the URL, use and name the new Fluid App Overcast. The website Favicon looks great, but if you want to use different artwork you can select âOtherâ instead under âIcon:â. Once you click âCreateâ, Fluid will create a Mac app inside your âApplicationsâ folder. Overcast is free, supported by tasteful ads and an optional subscription to remove them. Download now and see if itâs right for you. Apple Watch app with standalone podcast playback - CarPlay support Overcast is ad-supported. If you choose to purchase Overcast Premium to remove ads, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Overcast version 5.0.2 was released today, bringing additional Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12 and new Apple Watch complications to the popular third-party podcast player.
Changing the dimensions of your video does very little to reduce the amount of storage it consumes. Youâd use this setting specifically to meet the limitations of a particular playerâone that canât play video larger than 640 x 480, for example.
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Crop By default, HandBrake attempts to remove black bars by cropping them away. If youâre unhappy with its performance in this regard, you can do it yourself by enabling the Custom option in the Crop area and then entering the values you like in the four fields below. If your source material is a DVD burned originally from a video tape and that video shows scan lines at the top or bottom of the video, you can use crop to remove them.
Filters Normally you shouldnât have to touch the settings found in the Filters area if youâre working with a movie ripped from a commercial DVD. If your source material is made up of TV shows or animation, however, or comes from a disc youâve created from movies youâve shot, you might find some of these settings helpful.
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The Detelicine option switches on an inverse telecine process. Telecining is the act of converting film to video and adding frames in the process (because film runs at 24 fps and NTSC video uses 30 fps). The detelicine process removes those extra frames so your video plays back smoothly. Generally, only animation and TV shows require this setting but thereâs no harm in leaving it on all the time as it will have no effect on content it canât work with.
Take a gander at your videoâs preview image. If you see jagged lines where hard edges should be (called âcombingâ or âteethâ), the video is interlaced. Interlacing is a technique used in standard-definition TV for painting images in a series of odd and even lines. Interlaced video displays these jagged lines on a computer screen and some high-definition TVs. To remove it, you must deinterlace the video. HandBrake offers a couple of options for doing this.
First, choose Fast from the Deinterlace pop-up menu. If the jagged lines go away, you may want to deinterlace your video. The Fast setting is indeed faster, but you lose quality. To produce better results (though you still lose some quality), choose Slow or Slower.
I used the word âmayâ in the paragraph above because HandBrake offers another option for dealing with these jagged linesâDecomb. This option searches your video and applies deinterlacing only to those frames where the lines are visible. This helps maintain better overall video quality because not everything is deinterlaced.
If your source video is really grainy, give the Denoise option a try. This filter is a trade-off. You may lose some of the grain but you also lose overall quality (gain some blocking in the Medium and Strong settings, for example). There are three settingsâWeak, Medium, and Strong. Weak is the first to try on a sample (a chapter, for example). You have to try it on a sample because its effects arenât reflected in the preview image.
And finally, thereâs a Deblock slider that can get rid of blocky artifacts. Again, you wonât need this setting if your source is clean. If the source is poor to begin with, this is something to try on a sample chapter.
Audio & Subtitles
The Audio & Subtitles tab is the means for choosing which audio tracks youâd like to encode as well as placing subtitles on your encoded movies.
Many commercial DVDs contain multiple language tracksâEnglish, French, and Spanish, for example. You can reduce file size by stripping out the tracks you donât want. HandBrake will choose the English track by default and exclude others, but you can optionally add them back by selecting additional language tracks from the Track 2, Track 3, and Track 4 pop-up menus.
Within the Audio Codec pop-up menu you can choose the codec used for the movieâs audioâthe default is AAC, but you can maintain the source movieâs existing audio encoding by choosing AC3 Passthrough from this menu. File size will be larger, but the sound will exactly match the quality of the original. Even if you go with the default AAC (faac) setting, you can choose the output formatâMono, Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Pro Logic II, or 6-channel Discrete. Choose Dolby Pro Logic II and the audio will play on both stereo and surround-sound systems (though itâs not true surround-sound). The setting you choose should match the gear you intend to play the movie on.
If you donât mind the larger file, you can add both Pro Logic II and AC3 pass-through tracks using the Track 1 and Track 2 pop-up menus so that you have a movie that will play in stereo on your iPod or in full surround-sound on a device such as an Apple TV.
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With HandBrake you can add subtitles to your encoded movies if theyâre available on the original source DVD. Note, however, that you canât turn them off when viewing the movieâtheyâre burned into the movie.
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