does anyone have a working x264 transcoding solution for OS X?

[refulgentis]

i've spent 4-5 hours a day for the last 3 weeks trying to get a working solution on OS X.

SVN ffmpeg doesn't handle some of my MKVs appropriately, it "haults" for the first 6-7 seconds then begins converting normally. my latest builds have been ignoring CRF values for unknown reasons.

SVN mencoder isn't creating valid H.264 streams for either mp4box or quicktime half the time.

using mplayer to dump raw video to x264 is very hard for me to script, since I'm not very experienced with the whole thing, and it isn't very elegant.

i'm simply trying to transcode h.264 from HD mkv files into a format that an apple tv can handle, and its pretty much impossible to get anything working on a regular basis it seems.

any suggestions, besides installing windows and using megui?

[Dark Shikari]

Handbrake?

[refulgentis]

Handbrake?
beautiful, beautiful piece of software, but won't accept h.264 from MKVs :(

the thing I'm most pissed about is ffmpeg suddenly ignoring my crf values, I checked out the rev-9226 version used in visualhub that demuxes MKV properly and can handle all of mine, but it's ignoring crf :mad:

[Ronin-7]

No idea if this works but I did read somewhere else once that if you install Perian (http://perian.org/) and have Quicktime Pro using passthrough mode it will convert the MKV into MP4.

Alternatively crack open your AppleTV and install Perian so you don't have to convert in the first place.