It totally depends on how picky you are. And how far back from your TV you sit, and how big it is. For most people's viewing environments, it's probably fine. You might see some scenes not looking quite as detailed as they should, but with the variable bitrate I used, it's really not bad. But you can't make the movies for the car any bigger, or they don't play.
Uconnect movies via USB, what format?
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Thanks for the info. Another question more related to handbrake than uconnect: if I do want to create both a 1080p file for home and a 720p for van what's the best way to encode? Should I encode both separately from my 25GB bluray rip or should I first encode a 1080p and then re-encode a 720p file from the 1080p one? Any difference in quality (or speed)?
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Thats why i've chosse the MKV format instead of MP4. If it's not to late for you to change format:
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It's always better to encode from your highest quality source, rather then re-encoding. I don't think you would gain any speed, and it definitely wouldn't help the quality to re-encode 1080p down to 720 if you have the original rip on hand.
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does anybody know what the best USB device for compatability with Uconnect is now in 2021? I had a 128gb sandisck ultrafit 3.0 from 2018, but lost it. going to try the newer sandisk 128 ultra rit 3.1 now, unless somebody says otherwise.
This thread helped me out a lot and much thanks to @jbebel for sharing the handbrake settings.
Coming from windows, I found the program MKV Tag Editor to be super helpful in autogenerating the tags for the MKV files. It has a feature where it will automatically populate a bunch of info from The movie database including the art work.
I also use a program called kmttg to download movies and shows from my tivos and was able to export and encode them using the same handbrake settings
Below are what it looks like on my rear screen ... Ignore the Chapter 1 shrek movies.. I forgot to run them through the MKV Tag Editor program.
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Coming from windows, I found the program MKV Tag Editor to be super helpful in autogenerating the tags for the MKV files. It has a feature where it will automatically populate a bunch of info from The movie database including the art work.
I also use a program called kmttg to download movies and shows from my tivos and was able to export and encode them using the same handbrake settings
Below are what it looks like on my rear screen ... Ignore the Chapter 1 shrek movies.. I forgot to run them through the MKV Tag Editor program.
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Woah, my uconnect doesn't look like that. What year pacifica do you have?
2021
I'm using the SanDisk CZ600 Cruzer Glide USB 3.0 256 GB Flash Drive from costco
MKV Tag Editor
it will auto fill a bunch of fields as well as download the cover art from the internet movie database.
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I'm having an issue with some movies I ripped from Bluray. Some Disney Blurays have 2 movies on them. i.e. Lilo and Stitch and Lilo and Stitch 2. I was able to rip them fine as individual files and encoded them fine using handbrake but the Uconnect is only showing one of the files. I just used MKV tag editor to adjust the tags but haven't tested yet. Anyone have any idea why they are being combined and not showing individually?
How do you guys get the cool UI? I have a 2021 Pacifica Pinnacle, and my video files work fine, but I can only seem to access them through the dated Uconnect Theater UI. I have it plugged into the REAR USB. When I try in USB 1 or USB 2 it says no media files found. I have encoded my movies to .mp4 1200pixel width with no chapters.
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The "cool" ui is only visible on the uconnect theater screens on the seat backs, not the front screen. The only usb that you can use for video files is the one next to the blu-ray player. The one next to the aux plug will only handle music files. I believe all other usb ports are for charging only.
Okay, I seem to be having some odd issue. I encoded a bunch of movies and TV in mp4 h.264 and AAC audio. I got some new episodes that I swear I was encoding with the same settings but they won't even show up as being on the thumb drive while in the vehicle. I thought I made progress by re-encoding, but turns out I'm only getting audio though the vehicle, not video. These videos play as video on my PC and through my AppleTV. I'm using the Audials video converter. Handbrake and I have never really gotten along as I could not figure out the settings so as not to have a huge file size as in bigger than the original.
I live in Germany, so my english is far from good. Two weeks ago i bought a Pacifica Hybrid 2020 and since then i try to implement the cover art into my movies. The advice to use MKV Tag Editor was very helpful, so that i could integrate the movie names. In the editor i also loaded the cover art, but in the car there is no thumbail or cover art of the movie. It always shows the standard thumbnail and i don't know how to change it.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Marco
Thanks in advance for your help,
Marco
I don’t know the answer to your question, but all I can say is that your English appears perfect to me.
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This is just the thread I needed! Thanks!
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