HandBrake

That's exciting!

I think I'm going to redo my entire media library at some point-- and that point will probably when you add support for that to the software.

Thanks for all your help, and the amazing software!

If I've been happy with H.264 quality in the default software encoded 1080p30 format, what video toolbox H.265 quality setting do you think would give me similar video quality? Thanks for all your help with this! I've been using handbrake for ~a decade on my old iMac, but this hardware encoder stuff...

Ritsuka wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:23 am Yes, constant quality is supported.

Awesome!

So is there any downside now to using the hardware encoding (vs software encoding)?

Or are we still stuck at a fixed bit rate?

Looks like you can do a call to the video card for h.264 decryption: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html and I feel like I remember a feature of Lion (or maybe it was snow leopard?) where they added an API call to the GPU for processing (Open CL maybe?). Any chance ...

Rodeo wrote:

Obioban wrote:2000 the entire time (cq)?

Constant Quality does not mean constant bit rate. At all.

AAAHHHHHHH.

Lol, that completely changes everything. Thanks!

It depends. If you ran a cq encode and the resulting encode had a bitrate of 2000 then you ran a 2 pass encode at 2000 you should get the same result. But if you ran a cq encode and the resulting encode had a bitrate of 3000 then you ran a 2 pass encode at 2000 your 2 pass would be worse. This is w...

If you don't care at all about encode times, for a given bit rate, should the output be better with 2 pass avg than with constant quality? I'm not super concerned about consistency from one movie file to the next... so much as getting the most quality I can out of my files. Currently I'm just using ...

It seems like everyone who is in the know prefers constant quality to average bit rate. Why is that? Logically, to my mind, average quality makes more sense to me-- some scenes are more intense than others and need more data to be properly encoded. Average allows those scenes to have more and the ot...

Still been playing around with various settings to try to find something I like. I put it on VBR with an average bit rate of 3000 and two pass encoding turned on, and I kind of feel like it looks better than high. It looks like the sharpness is maintained but the graininess is somehow removed....? F...

As mentioned by HB dev, thats not going to be possible. Apple/Studios uses the master source content. We on the other hand are already using compressed source material. Such as DVD and BR. I understand we can't get their source material, but don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to use the ...

So, I encoded a couple of files using "High" today. The results look beautiful, but the files are HUGE! I was fooling with "dodgeball", starting with a BD rip. "High" left alone made a 9.88 gb file "High" with "large file size" unchecked made a 8.55...

So, I encoded a couple of files using "High" today. The results look beautiful, but the files are HUGE! ......... Is there any way to get our 1080p files closer to the size of apples (~3gb per movie) without totally giving up on quality? As I said in my previous post, strangely I get smal...

So, I encoded a couple of files using "High" today. The results look beautiful, but the files are HUGE! I was fooling with "dodgeball", starting with a BD rip. "High" left alone made a 9.88 gb file "High" with "large file size" unchecked made a 8.55 ...

GregiBoy wrote:Why do that when Handbrake is not only used by Apple users?

Because the majority of the users are Apple users

Even if it's an exact duplicate of the High profile, still makes sense to me to have a ATV3 preset under devices. Otherwise people will have this question ALL the time.

Ahhh.... looks like 24fps is the key difference that I've been missing!

Nor is the current (non legacy) preset any good-- most of the files end up somewhere between 540p and 555p-- hardly HD, imo! The ATV1 can play 720p, ATV legacy preset files without issue. I know, I have literally 6000+ of them! The standard ATV preset is conservative because an unhacked ATV1 would ...

So, I know it's not the most popular of devices, but is there any possible way to get the Apple TV legacy preset back? I have two ATV2s and two ATV(1)s-- I never use the ATV2s because the library support in the hacked ATV1 is VASTLY better than it is in the ATV2. I just updated handbrake, and poof, ...