shaking visuals?

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joshlindem
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shaking visuals?

Post by joshlindem »

Quick background:
Linux Mint (current)
nvidia GPU (12GB)
MakeMKV 1.17.9
Handbrake (using HQ1080p30surround)

The problem:
I'm trying to go through all my movies and convert them to MP4 and build my own digital streaming service in-home. With the news of WB defective discs I've started there and with older videos. I went through series like the original 80's Transformer cartoons, The Flash (1990) mini-series, The original Superman Movie.

With the older TV series the quality doesn't look that great to today's standards, but I believe that's just the quality of the TV shows "Back in the Day". But I've seen this a couple of times now where, for example, I'll start the Superman movie MP4 and it's "shaky?". I would almost say it's like a cameraman who is jittery or moving slightly. But that doesn't make sense, does it?

The intent was that on my Linux machine building my database, I would be doing this while i did other things on my Windows.
I just did one on my Windows computer and it already appears to look better. (still a tad shaky at beginnging).

What is happening? Afraid I may need to go back and restart again
dcoke22
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Re: shaking visuals?

Post by dcoke22 »

MakeMKV just copies what's on the disc into a .mkv file. Is the thing you see present on the disc when you play it in a player? Or in the .mkv file produced by MakeMKV? Or is it only in the .mp4 file produced by Handbrake?

As a side note, Handbrake can output .mkv files as opposed to .mp4 files. MKV containers are much more versatile. You should consider using them instead.
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