HandBrake

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We're not sophisticated here.

Choose it.

The hardware encoders aren't much different. The preference is generally "the one you have", and if you happen to have multiple, then the most modern one is generally the pick.

This is just a general question about the Advanced Options under the Video tab. I have spent the last hour trying to find information on this but with no success. I ran across a site that gives their "best settings" for Handbrake and one of the things they say to do is put ref=5:bframes=5 in the Ad...

HB is for video, not stills.

I've quit the ffmpeg-user mailing list. The principals there don't care about my experiments. Some of them seem to not actually understand the 'mechanics' of video and see the process solely in terms of making calls to libraries. Yea I'm going to guess they're not the side with a lack of understand...

"an old PSP" is a nightmare of a target, with multiple hardware revisions and software releases with different capabilities and limitations.

You can leave the bars on with HB if you don't crop them off, but we'd need to see a log to know if you did that correctly.

I urge you to write and support the necessary code to integrate arbitrary filters from the libavfilter library into HB. Should keep you busy for a while.

You don't. HB is not an ffmpeg front end. Use ffmpeg if you want ffmpeg.

Why not use repeatfields?

None of your images work.

Is it fine when you play it on your computer with VLC?

Sounds like a broken player.

While HB uses some libraries from ffmpeg, this belongs in the ffmpeg channels and does not relate to HB.

How long is a piece of string

I wouldn't use HB for ripping DVDs.

Per the log it's about 500MB, so this conversation is taking crazy pills.

Are you trying to do something HB doesn't support, like ripping a commercial DVD?

This is all covered in the documentation available in HandBrake.exe --help

Generally a hardware problem... cooling, power delivery, etc.

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That's what quality based encoding does. Umpteen threads on this.

Use manual and set it to zero on all sides.

It's dumb, but so is most of the GUI.

The HD presets use a higher RF (lower quality per pixel), appropriate for HD material that has more pixels. That wasn't the question. I know that the HD version would be larger. What I'm asking is why the 480p version file size is larger than the 1080p file size for the same type of rip. Because th...