HandBrake

I seem to be having a problem with any widescreen content I convert in Handbrake using the Intel QSV encoder. It will output the file in 1920x800 correctly, but the video only fills about 500 pixels of the 800 vertical. The black bars show correctly but I only get 3/4 of the movie filling the area i...

Any way of using Quick Sync as a decoder only and leaving the encoder as software? I have another program which allows this and it works fast while retaining video quality.

Quick Sync is great if you use it on the decoding side only, and leave the encoding to software. I have a program lets me do this and I get 30-50% more speed on my encodes than Handbrake, but still get to within 90% of the quality of HB. The main problem is it does not offer CRF encoding so my file ...

I have been using Handbrake for a few years and have always used the old Regular Normal (Default) setting for my encodes. Since the Regular Normal preset was changed a while back I have been using the new preset instead and have noticed that the overall quality of the resulting encodes doesn't seem ...