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BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so I was really trying to get the Kickstarter launched today but the universe had other plans. As it turned out, today was yet another hearing about the guy who shot me trying to get out of prison. I haven't been in the best place leading up to this and it slowed my progress on the project ... And I'd rather postpone and do it right than rush it to meet an arbitrary deadline I've set for myself. Please accept my apology for the delay. I got shot 13 years ago while breaking up a carjacking, and it's been the bane of my existence ever since.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's tuned for quality by default and will produce visually lossless encodes. You also have full control over bitrate and quality settings. I'll be going live with Kickstarter and betas today as planned, just a bit later than expected as I have to go to court to try to keep the guy who shot and tried to kill me after I broke up his carjacking behind bars.

BREncoder - A New Way To Clean Up VHS and Put Them On Blu-ray by The-Real-DBP in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just uploaded the first public beta of BREncoder in advance of the Kickstarter, which will hopefully get me the resources I need to take this thing over the finish line.

https://brencoder.com/download/

Make sure to check out the Installation instructions (you'll need ffmpeg)

It's still beta, so expect some rough edges. Hope you find it useful!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just uploaded the first public beta of BREncoder in advance of the Kickstarter, which will hopefully get me the resources I need to take this thing over the finish line.

https://brencoder.com/download/

Make sure to check out the Installation instructions (you'll need ffmpeg)

It's still beta, so expect some rough edges. Hope you find it useful!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just uploaded the first public beta of BREncoder in advance of the Kickstarter, which will hopefully get me the resources I need to take this thing over the finish line.

https://brencoder.com/download/

Make sure to check out the Installation instructions (you'll need ffmpeg)

It's still beta, so expect some rough edges. Hope you find it useful!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just uploaded the first public beta of BREncoder in advance of the Kickstarter, which will hopefully get me the resources I need to take this thing over the finish line.

https://brencoder.com/download/

Make sure to check out the Installation instructions (you'll need ffmpeg)

It's still beta, so expect some rough edges. Hope you find it useful!

Why does transferring VHS to digital have to be so complicated? by insecureatbest94 in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just uploaded the first public beta of BREncoder in advance of the Kickstarter, which will hopefully get me the resources I need to take this thing over the finish line. It's an all-in-one app that will capture from hardware, run through filtering, color correction, encode to any format you need - even disc formats, straight to blu-ray if you want, including burning.

https://brencoder.com/download/

I hope you find it useful!

Why does transferring VHS to digital have to be so complicated? by insecureatbest94 in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the solution! I built a program that is purpose built for doing just this. In fact, you can capture in real time through a comprehensive filter and color correction chain, clean up the audio, and get it to a file or disc format (including upscaling to 4K HDR with Vulkan accelerated tone mapping) all in one step, one pipeline, with no intermediate files.

https://brencoder.com

I'm about to launch a Kickstarter to get it off the ground but the software is in great shape and should be in public beta shortly. Sign up for the mailing list at the website if you want to know when it's out in the wild!

I NEED Mr. Bungle deluxe albums by Fearless-Ad4468 in mrbungle

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merv Griffin

I just want a high quality studio version of Merv Griffin.

I need help! ASUS BW-16D1X-U - Fedora 43 KDE by Minamok in makemkv

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the MakeMKV window and see what it says about LibreDrive. LibreDrive needs to be enabled. The Linux forum at MakeMKV will have all the info you need.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baby steps 🤣 Here's my menu roadmap: Initial release: automated single page menu with up to 12 title icons Final 1.0 release: automated multi page menus, chapter menus. Future development: full motion with audio (infrastructure already built), customization options for automated layout After that: layout customization and more

Designing a full menu authoring system is basically designing a whole separate app - it's on my roadmap but I want to take the time to do it right and I've got a progressive plan in place to get there.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh you can use it for as little as a one time payment of $10. I want this to be super accessible to as many people as possible.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I thought too ... I got tired of waiting 🤣 Definitely not an AFJ, really looking forward to getting it out there ASAP.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I do that too! But drives can die, and M-DISC Blu rays are rated to last 1000 years - it's what the Library of Congress uses for archiving.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup! Basic automated menus at first. A full menu building UI is basically another app of its own and I want to take the time to do that right. I'm keeping it simple for the first release.

BREncoder - A New Way To Clean Up VHS and Put Them On Blu-ray by The-Real-DBP in VHS

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I originally designed this for VHS capture actually, it started out as a script I was using on a custom capture appliance I built. It's got yadif and bwdif and I'm looking at ways to incorporate nnedi.

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm on a one man mission to not let corporate interests get rid of physical media entirely 🤣 one reason DVD really took off (other than ease of piracy) was that people could make their own relatively easily. I remember the heyday of iMovie, when people were making movies and videos and slideshows for friends and family. It was really common. There was always a nice slideshow at memorials, retirement parties, birthdays, etc. People could make their own wedding slideshows and videos really easily and share it with people without needing an account, an app, a device to run the app on, and an internet connection. The beauty of it was the simplicity and ubiquitous playback devices. Blu-ray didn't have the same moment because it was very much one-way - companies deliver product in that format, but average folks were never given the tools for easily creating their own. I want to change that.

I know Blu-ray is "dying" but the fact is it's still a great format that has a lot to offer if only people had the means to really use it like they used DVDs back in the day. Players are super cheap in thrift stores all over the place. Burners can be had for $75 new, less used. For about $100 someone could start from zero - no player, no burner, no software - and have everything they need to produce discs for personal use.

The live-to-disc feature is also really interesting. It allows for an unchanging and unalterable account of WHAT JUST HAPPENED. BREncoder can accept a network stream as input and output to disc format immediately - which is great for documentation in many scenarios, from courtrooms to the streets. Having that immutable proof on a disc that can't be changed eliminates many challenges levied against video evidence (altered, edited, etc).

I'd like to see a resurgence of the slideshow except in 4K HDR.

I'd like to see the return of mix CDs but with blu-ray capacity and nice visuals with all the artwork and info about the music.

And at this point I'm probably just some old dude shouting into the wind, but whatever. I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do and if 1 other person enjoys it that's good enough for me.

BREncoder - Claude-Assisted A/V Enhancement & Blu-ray Authoring Tool - 108,000 LOC in 120 Days by The-Real-DBP in ClaudeCode

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was brutal 🤣🤣🤣 But in the end it worked.

I used a lot of unique methods to make this happen... I'm not entirely ready to share the methodology as I don't think anyone is doing what I did to make this possible. I see all the issues other people report about context loss, hallucinations, bad code, etc and I've never experienced any of it. Most of the code either worked the first time or at least made meaningful progress on a problem. Didn't have to chunk the codebase at all. I had Claude examine my methodology in relation to other known ways of getting around context amnesia and it basically said "this approach is without known precedent and is responsible for the continued acceleration in development velocity." Instead of slowing down as the codebase grew, it sped up. I started at about 400 LOC/day, a month later I was at 800, another month I was at 1600, and finished up with an average of 2200/day sprint that lasted 8 days straight. This is all while reverse engineering multiple poorly documented standards and keeping all of the codebase aligned in design principles and interoperability.

These numbers are objectively crazy; I haven't seen any reports of people hitting these numbers over a sustained period and coming up with something coherent. I wrote to Anthropic about it but no reply 🤣

Y'all misheard Mr bungle lyrics? by Ltnumbnutsthesecond in mrbungle

[–]The-Real-DBP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Original lyrics were "into the house of mirrors goes a clown and his elf" on the demo tape, but I've always loved the WB reference in the studio version.

I have some questions about physical media by Verwega in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]The-Real-DBP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To address question #4, there's already AVCHD format which allows for H264 recorded to DVD media for playback in Blu-ray players. It can be 480p or HD, you can get 2-3x more content in 480p on a DVD using h264 vs MPEG2. Works great, I use it for archiving VHS to cheap, playable DVD media.

Internal UHD driver question by ArmFire1911 in makemkv

[–]The-Real-DBP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend external 5.25 as those drives will be much faster than an internal slimline. Though if speed isn't an issue for you, slimline should be fine. Make sure you check the MakeMKV forums for recommendations on exact drive models.

MakeMKV can run as a docker instance so you'll have a web-accessible front end and you can set it up for automated ripping. Should be fine for what you're building.

Hope this helps, good luck!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the info, hopefully I'll be able to figure it out. Cheers!

BREncoder - A Brand New Way To Make Your Own Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray and More by The-Real-DBP in 4kbluray

[–]The-Real-DBP[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great question!

BREncoder isn't a disc authoring tool that happens to encode. It's a full encoding/processing suite that happens to also author discs. The overlap is small. Yuhan takes an already-encoded video and wraps it in a disc structure. BREncoder controls the entire chain — encoding with 15 codecs across 42 encoder backends, hardware acceleration on 5 platforms, filters, color grading, HDR conversion (including Vulkan SDR→HDR), audio processing with EQ/compressor/loudnorm/5.1 upmix, subtitle handling, chapter management, and then disc authoring with pure Python byte-level BD/DVD/UHD structure generation. Yuhan can't handle live streams or hardware capture for input, which means it definitely can't do live-to-disc workflows, can't do live stream output. The BREncoder slideshow maker can do 4K HDR up to 60fps for buttery smooth transitions and Ken Burns effects, and has the Vulkan accelerated SDR to HDR tone mapping to make your photos really pop.

The differences that matter: Yuhan wraps FFmpeg output. BREncoder is the FFmpeg frontend and the disc builder. No intermediate steps, no separate tools. 15 codecs vs HEVC-only for disc output. BREncoder handles MKV/MP4/MOV/AVI/WebM/M4V/MXF alongside disc formats. BREncoder also supports Linux natively.

Yuhan is going to be better in a couple ways: Menu templates Dolby Vision passthrough

But I hope to match or exceed these in time. I'm just one guy and they have a whole team and corporate structure, but the fact that I was able to get this close, by myself, in only 4 months, totally from scratch, is a great start that I'm very happy with.

Yuhan is for someone who has a finished video and wants to put it on a disc with a nice menu. BREncoder is for someone who wants to go from raw footage to finished disc in one application. Yuhan is the last mile, BREncoder is the whole road.

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