HandBrake

However, I'm slightly concerned that the file size produced is 4.8 GB from 19 GB. I mean, I'm happy it's much smaller, but I didn't expect it to shrink so much, so concerned about quality loss during the process. I use the default H.264 HQ 1080p30 preset. Audio is AC-3 5.1 passthrough. The video bi...

If you only need to change the container and not the streams (other than dropping some), HB is the wrong tool for you.

Use any muxer for that, like mp4box, subler, ffmpeg, etc. Much faster and no loss in quality.

It still depends on your source and settings. They may potentially all be used, or may have some relatively idle.

Don't bother with x265 for high quality HD encodes; x264 is way faster.

x265 shines at large frame sizes (4K+) or very low bitrates (low to medium quality); otherwise you don't get much for the speed hit.

If you're doing an encode for later editing, I'd suggest one of the Production presets.

It attempts to use them all by default. It may or may not be particularly effective doing so depending on your settings.

Double check where you have HB installed.

HB isn't really the tool for HLS. ffmpeg can be scripted to do it pretty easily.

https://docs.peer5.com/guides/production-ready-hls-vod/

Figure out if it's a transfer problem or a decode problem.

Try lowering the bitrate peaks using vbv.

Try using the fastdecode preset.

The Production Proxy 1080p preset is intra-only. You can increase the resolution and save your own preset if you need higher resolution.

Absent an authoring error, which I don't think is the case here, the grain and/or softness is the intent of the creator. I'd drop the filtering, tune grain, and just eat the larger file size output to preserve what it's supposed to look like. OTOH if you want the grain gone, try hq3dn instead of nlm...

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How about this video you already posted the log for?

How many frames do you think your input is?

You can choose any preset with a 4K or higher resolution target, a preset with no resolution target, or adjust the resolution target and save your own preset.

Yes you can.

The source file you're providing to HB.

How many frames do you think your input is?

--enable-vce in your ./configure

HB's ability to start an encode at a specific time depends on HB's ability to get to that point in the video.

You'll need to use something intended for DVD ripping to get a clean copy, or a copy with the error portion removed.

HB isn't for ripping disks; use MakeMKV instead.

If you're going to edit later, keep the originals or make an editing-friendly (which will probably not be much smaller) encode with the Production presets. For lossless merging you can use ffmpeg or mkvmerge or probably one of the mp4 muxers for your platform. You can do this with the M2TS files or ...

HandBrake is highly configurable to provide a wide variety of speed, size, and quality tradeoffs; so any difference in speed is trivial to address.

For editing, the Production presets in HB would be a good starting point.

H.264 has a maximum frame size of 139,264 macroblocks (16x16). 5400x2700 is 223,446 macroblocks, so that won't work.
H.265 has a maximum frame size of 35,651,584 pixels (well, luma samples, but same here with HB), which 5400x2700 fits in.

Either of those options are H.265 encoders.

HB thought it had reached the end of the video stream. Video security systems are notorious for malformed output.

Also the source container says it's only 3.7 seconds of video:

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Duration: 00:00:03.71, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2550 kb/s