The Apple - VOD Upgrade

[Riffling]

Here is a link to The Apple synced with the new BD Release. Also includes unriffed feature audio and the blu ray commentary.

RiffTrax - The Apple (1980) BDRip 1080p [2.16 GB]

[Traknos]

Raaaaad. I have heard good things about this transfer so I am pretty psyched it give it a watch!

[hazzychan]

Hahaha we finally get a BDRip quality release of the worst musical ever. Badass, thanks Riffling.

[BadFilms]

You are a king amongst people that aren't kings.

[billythefist]

I appreciate all your work Riffling, just have a quick question about how you do encodes...

some of your encodes go out of sync when i re-encode them to mp4's, they seem fine in the MKV container when watching on PC but as soon as i put them in an MP4 container the audio goes out of sync. This has happened with your Viva Knieval, Night of the Lepus, Kingdom of Spiders, and The Apple encodes for me. Are you using any MKV-specific methods of delaying/syncing audio tracks that aren't translating to the MP4?

I don't want to sound like im complaining, because i definitely appreciate what you do... but its kinda frustrating to have to re-encode h264 video down to level 4.1 to make it work on my player (3-6 hours), only to have the audio out of sync by a few seconds (which i am terrible at fixing and takes about the same amount of time)

If i am the only person that is having this issue, i will gladly shut up and just keep fixing them as you put them up! lol

[enyalep]

I appreciate all your work Riffling, just have a quick question about how you do encodes...

some of your encodes go out of sync when i re-encode them to mp4's, they seem fine in the MKV container when watching on PC but as soon as i put them in an MP4 container the audio goes out of sync. This has happened with your Viva Knieval, Night of the Lepus, Kingdom of Spiders, and The Apple encodes for me. Are you using any MKV-specific methods of delaying/syncing audio tracks that aren't translating to the MP4?

I don't want to sound like im complaining, because i definitely appreciate what you do... but its kinda frustrating to have to re-encode h264 video down to level 4.1 to make it work on my player (3-6 hours), only to have the audio out of sync by a few seconds (which i am terrible at fixing and takes about the same amount of time)

If i am the only person that is having this issue, i will gladly shut up and just keep fixing them as you put them up! lol

i'm truly not attempting to be a dick, but have u tried NOT re-encoding them? maybe using a player like VLC? is it also possible that the encodes r in stereo & thus converting them to 5.1 - i'm assuming u meant 5.1, if you're using 4.1 then you're the odd man out anyway - is making your audio do funny things? i'm really not trying to be mean, just as u yourself expressed, but i think this may be one of those situations where if u have the need for a specific encode, then u should just be buying them yourself. i have almost every rifftrax that MKB have ever done; if i had to spend 3-6 hrs on each of those hundreds of titles just to enjoy them at all, i would probably conclude that it would just be easier to NOT watch rifftrax. just sayin'.

[bsg4you]

hi billythefist,

why, exactly, are you re-encoding riffling's mkv container posts?

do you need an mp4 container for a particular player?

do you need a different bitrate, resolution, speaker mix, etc?

if you need an mp4 container, please try doing a *lossless* conversion from mkv to mp4 i detail below. it just stream copies the video and audio so it's like a file copy speed-wise.

i know there's a command line program to run and a gui is easiest, but this really works well and is super easy.

if you've got some other issue than just the container, please detail what it is so we can help.

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to do a lossless conversion of an mkv container file to an mp4 contrainer file, i use a tool called:
avconv which is included with the libav program

put the input file into the directory with the libav files and then run the command:
avconv -i input-filename.mkv -codec copy output-filename.mp4

this is a lossless conversion meaning there is no re-encoding of the audio or video streams. thus, it is very fast (e.g. a few seconds) and there is no change in quality.

for windows, i use and just successfully re-tested:
libav-i686-w64-mingw32-20170415.7z at http://builds.libav.org/windows/nightly-gpl/

for mac, i searched on installing libav on macos and found this:

https://superuser.com/questions/568464/h...osx#966469
How to install libav/avconv on OSX
Just install it with brew:

Code:

brew install libav

--WestonGanger
More at Super User
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[dmanti]

@enyalep and @bsg4you
I think you guys missed why billythefirst is changing the file. He needs to change the h264 level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels

but its kinda frustrating to have to re-encode h264 video down to level 4.1 to make it work on my player

[KidFlash25]

I use handbrake to convert the MKVs everyone posts to (720x406/640x480, depending on the file) mp4 for my smart TV to run the files off of my external HD. Also to make sure I can watch it on my tablet (older Kindle Fire model) when I go on trips. Saves me room on the HD.

(Is this where I post grateful thanks to everyone who's upconverted the VODs? Because I'm pretty grateful for the hard work you guys have put in.)

[bsg4you]

h264 level shouldn't do anything to the a/v sync.
we need more info to help.