Settings for MKV bluray rips that will have no problems playing on Boxee? Handbrake?

[met_fan]

Yes, but with bluray, isn't the file size too big for boxee to process? I seem to remember trying one and got either shuddering and/or buffering issue (can't remember which).

I rip full BD files with MakeMKV and they play without problem on my Boxee. On early firmware, I used to get a lot of buffering, but one of the early updates fixed it - I think it was a network issue anyway, not a Boxee hardware issue.

[drunkwithpower]

I run full bluray rips off my NAS with "nearly" zero problems. My shudder and occaisional buffer issues went away when I changed from SMB to NFS. If you can do it, I recommend the change. My Box is fairly rock solid right now (except for the usual issues of Flash, HD Audio etc).

Same here. I use Vidcoder (front end for Handbrake) and use constant quality 18 with audio passthrough (I use MakeMKV to extract movie only with DTS audio). This gives me an MKV with the movie only and the original DTS audio. I stopped including the HD Audio as Boxee has problems with it and I really couldn't tell the difference between DTS and HD-audio anyway (besides the larger file sizes...lol).

[Hawk]

I run full bluray rips off my NAS with "nearly" zero problems. My shudder and occaisional buffer issues went away when I changed from SMB to NFS. If you can do it, I recommend the change. My Box is fairly rock solid right now (except for the usual issues of Flash, HD Audio etc).

How do I go about doing this?

[jebise]

SMB sucks and at least for me is still some what broken. I moved away from it a long time ago when i bought my DNS-323 and started to use NFS and like others have zero lag or any buffers. But was that NAS ever slow when it came to file transfer from PC (this is different then reading from NAS HDD) so I had some free time and an extra PC and so built me a WHS. I was then running into the issue with crap SMB support on BBox and tried third party apps which failed to work or cost $$ which i did not want to spend.

I came across this and I as amazed WHS actually had NFS support.

NFS all the way, using the bird test files, with SMB i can stream max 50 mbps on my gig network but with NFS it around 85 mbps which will eat up any large BD or high bit rate files and i'm sure i will get better speeds if i move to cat6 cables.

[flamepanther]

I have a dumb question: is there any reason to use handbrake other than reducing file size? I'm using makemkv to rip my DVDs, and while the files are large, they seem to work fine on my boxee. If I have plenty of disk space available, should I just leave them alone? Thanks.

Well, there could be other reasons if you're starting from a source other than a decrypted DVD or BD. For example, a lot of anime fansubs now use 10 bit high profile encoding, so unless you want a black screen, it needs to be transcoded.

For rips that already work, though? I'd leave them alone unless I needed the space pretty badly.

[Hawk]

SMB sucks and at least for me is still some what broken. I moved away from it a long time ago when i bought my DNS-323 and started to use NFS and like others have zero lag or any buffers. But was that NAS ever slow when it came to file transfer from PC (this is different then reading from NAS HDD) so I had some free time and an extra PC and so built me a WHS. I was then running into the issue with crap SMB support on BBox and tried third party apps which failed to work or cost $$ which i did not want to spend.

I came across this and I as amazed WHS actually had NFS support.

NFS all the way, using the bird test files, with SMB i can stream max 50 mbps on my gig network but with NFS it around 85 mbps which will eat up any large BD or high bit rate files and i'm sure i will get better speeds if i move to cat6 cables.

I enabled it, but then I found out that StableBit DrivePool does not support NFS. So I guess I'm stuck with what I have. Thanks for the info though!!!