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  1. Can some please tell me what would cause Handbrake to produce a one minute preview file with no video in it and what I need to do to resolve this problem?
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  2. I'm a MEGA Super Moderator Baldrick's Avatar
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    Please give more information.

    Source file?
    Does it work to convert the entire file?

    Or try latest handbrake beta/nightly build or VidCoder.
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  3. The source file was the 1950 movie named Dallas. I tried 4 times to create a preview for the movie and each time it created a 60 second blank video file. Given my luck with the previews, I decided there was no use wasting several hours only to create a 94 minute blank file. I use Handbrake daily, but I have never had a problem like this with it. It seems to me that it isn't accessing the correct codec to encode the file or something along that line.
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    Originally Posted by Baldrick View Post
    Please give more information.
    Originally Posted by BurtonW
    The source file was the 1950 movie named Dallas.
    Wow, that's helpful.
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  5. Go eat a dog ndjamena, if that's all you have to say about my problem. You do understand that this is the Newbie thread huh?
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    OK, then, we need to know what's inside the file, where did it come from? DVD, Blu Ray or 'other'? MediaInfo it or look at it's statistics in VLC. What extension does it have. Is it HD or SD. We need more to go on.

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    Originally Posted by BurtonW
    I use Handbrake daily
    Last edited by ndjamena; 9th May 2014 at 22:19.
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    Actually ndjamena was being helpful,it doesn't matter if you are a newbie,you have to give more info,it's like a person saying my car has a problem,can you help me?
    I think,therefore i am a hamster.
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  8. The movie is on a DVD and the 4 files that contain the movie are VOB files. Here's the media data from the first of the 4 files:

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    Complete name : C:\Users\Burton\Documents\Convert These !\Dallas_VIDEO_ TS\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
    Format : MPEG-PS
    File size : 1 024 MiB
    Duration : 22mn 37s
    Overall bit rate : 6 328 Kbps

    Audio
    ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
    Format : AC-3
    Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
    Mode extension : CM (complete main)
    Format settings, Endianness : Big
    Muxing mode : DVD-Video
    Duration : 22mn 37s
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 192 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Channel positions : Front: L R
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth : 16 bits
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Stream size : 31.1 MiB (3%)

    Text #1
    ID : 189 (0xBD)-32 (0x20)
    Format : RLE
    Format/Info : Run-length encoding
    Muxing mode : DVD-Video

    Text #2
    ID : 189 (0xBD)-33 (0x21)
    Format : RLE
    Format/Info : Run-length encoding
    Muxing mode : DVD-Video

    Text #3
    ID : 189 (0xBD)-34 (0x22)
    Format : RLE
    Format/Info : Run-length encoding
    Muxing mode : DVD-Video

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    VOB files are not meant to be treated as individual video files. They are part of a DVD structure. To load DVD files into Handbrake, choose Open Folder and select the VIDEO_TS folder. It will then load all the titles on the DVD and allow you to choose which title you want to convert.
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    I see an audio and 3 text streams there, but no video at all. If you're re-encoding THAT then everything is working as it should.
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  11. Thanks ronmaz! Everything worked fine selecting the folder instead of a file in it.
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