And that all NTSC DVDs are 480i and are displayed at 29.97 fps. But I also read some articles that said movies put on DVD aren’t actually 23.976 fps but are really interlaced into separate fields.

I looked at the frame rates of several of my my movie DVDs (originally 24fps movies) in MPEG Streamclip and it said all of them were 23.976 fps. Finally you can use Subler to add metdata to your M4V files that your Apple TV will be able to display.Also, I’ve been reading different articles about this subject and now I’m not so sure what’s going on. Make sure AC3 and AAC tracks are set to passthru in Handbrake. Make sure you arrange them in your preferred order within Handbrake. If an encode has two tracks of the same format and language your Apple TV will default to the first one in the list. If your default langue is set to English your Apple TV will play that ahead of any other language track.

With an Apple TV, audio defaults are defined by audio format, language and or track order.Īn AC3 track will always take precedence over an AAC track. If you wanted a set and forget RF value I'd choose RF19. Use constant quality encoding (rather average bit rate) and for DVDs I found RF settings between RF16 and RF20 yielded excellent results (roughly 1/3 the size of a DVD or less). I'm not aware of a free Mac version I'm afraid. If the only suitable subtitles available are within the DVD, use Subtitle Editor to convert image based subtitles (inside the MKV you created) into text based srt subtitles which can be loaded into Handbrake as a soft (switchable) subtitles. I would agree with mduell regarding audio and subtitles. Under Handbrake's Preferences set Output Files / MP4 File Extension drop down to Always use M4V Save these settings as a new custom video preset. Then paste everything as written below in bold into the Extra Options window of the Video tab. It’s not upscaling simply using superior encode settings.

With Handbrake I used the following settings: Apple 1080p30 Surround. You then load the MKV into Handbrake as your source. For DVD encodes with an Apple TV I would use MakeMKV to convert each DVD into a non-copy protected MKV file.

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