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I guess this topic is obsolete. I just found this: oversaturated dark areas playing HDR 10 bit People reported here that HDR 10bit shows a darken/desaturate video, when they use the newest IINA video player. Actually I have the same issue with VLC (e.g. compared to MPC). Obviously those players inte...

Here some example images of the video:

Source 2k (8bit, BT.709):


Source 4k (HDR, 10bit, BT.2020) to 2k (8bit, BT.709) transcoded:

Your source is HDR, if you want to play it on a player that doesn't support HDR, you need to enable the colorspace filter and set it to Bt.709. I assume your 2k version is not HDR. Movie studios do a different color grading for HDR and SDR, so they won't look the same anyway. Yea that makes sense, ...

Oh, sorry, thought it may be a general issue.

Here is the log:
https://pastebin.com/guTHtPpR

If something else is missing, please let me know.

Thanks!

As the title says, I want to convert a 4k (10bit, HDR) HEVC video into a 2k (8bit) x265 mkv one. I did this with Handbrake by only changing the dimensions (width/height/cropping). Since I have the same video also recorded as 2k (but with lower quality) I am able to compare the results. Result/Issue:...

He's right, bt470bg transfer function is gamma 2.8, and HandBrake doesn't support it yet (probably because so few DVD-Video used it? Who knows after all this years). And we can't just pass the tag through because it's not supported by modern players. I think there are some plans to add a color spac...

... But you might have better luck asking this question on VLC support forums or irc channel. Oh, I forgot to post the VLC thread: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=148580 Last answer and current result: Hi, I looked at the files. The source file is marked as BT.470 for the Transf...

VLC never tried to display colors correctly. It can do HDR to SDR tone mapping, but nothing more (if I remember correctly, on Mac it was uber broken, never tried on Windows). However, it should not look so different. But you might have better luck asking this question on VLC support forums or irc c...

Thanks for the answers! An Activity Log is required for support requests. Please read How-to get an activity log? for details on how and why this should be provided. Hm? Is the following log not an activity log? ... HB Log (HandBrake 1.2.2, Win10) https://pastebin.com/raw/2J4TZ9nb ... Try with a bet...

Hello, following issue: After transcoded a DVD video via HB to x265 576 present, the color looks "washed out". Source video screenshot (via VLC 3.0.6) https://i.imgur.com/LVCxkKY.jpg HB transcode screenshot (via VLC 3.0.6) https://i.imgur.com/Lbg6FTV.jpg HB Log (HandBrake 1.2.2, Win10) htt...

Given the changes in x265 over the last "years", they're almost certainly a bad idea if you've been using them that long. Much better off with the preset/tune system which are set up for the current version of x265. Yea you are right. I played a lot with the settings in the last days. My ...

Thanks mduell for your answer! Extra options: strong-intra-smoothing=1:me=1:lookahead-slices=5:rd=3:psy-rdoq=0.00:qpmax=51 Where did you find these extra settings? Some blogger on the internet? I'd disregard them and stick to the preset/tune system, developed by actual encoder experts. Actually that...

No, SSIM is a way to measure quality, you will find it in the activity log when he encode is done (if you enabled it); vmaf is another (possibly better) algorithm to measure quality, but HandBrake doesn't support it. Yes, that is what I have thought when i defined it as a "rating ([...] for ch...

Thanks @Ritsuka and @mduell for your answers! If you want to compare the quality, you should check the ssim or encode two clips at the same bitrate and use your eyes. Be sure to tune for SSIM, so the psychovisual model is nerfed. I don't understand "nerfed" in this context. Do you mean, if...

So, I transcoded the video anew with frame-threads=5, to get the same frame-threads like in the 1.0.7. Result: Still same size, 1100 MB = larger than with 1.0.7... => Changing Frame Threads has no impact to the file size. Log for 1.1.1 (new): https://pastebin.com/WmNNwVEY Log for 1.0.7: https://past...

Frame threads changed. I did not change the frames, probably it was changed by Handbrake update? Does the frame-threads really cause this larger file? I will add it via extra options "frame-threads=5" and transcode it again... P.S. I went through the entire logs of 1.0.7 and 1.1.1, differ...

Thanks god to the logs in Roaming!

Log for 1.0.7
https://pastebin.com/XmCKsWE7

Log for 1.1.1
https://pastebin.com/FYETnKhZ


Updated 1.0.7 link.

You used different settings. This is why an Activity Log is required for support requests. Hi mduell , thanks for your answer. No I did not. I just updated to 1.1.1 and used the same custom present. Never touched this for years. (Sadly I have no log for 1.0.7 and 1.1.1 anymore :-/ ) *EDIT* I found ...

Description of problem or question: I used Handbrake 1.0.7 for a long time. After I updated to 1.1.1, my encodings feels larger than normal. I tested it also: via 1.0.7 Movie X got 983 MB via 1.1.1 Movie X got 1100 MB Why are my movies more like 10% bigger than before? Is it possible to get the sam...

Rodeo wrote:You could remux it with mkvmerge GUI, or even try a complete demux/mux (which is a bit more involved). It may or may not work.

I 'll give it a try, thank you!

Alright then I have to look for another solution.

Thanks for your answers!

A year ago I ripped and transcoded a movie (source: bluray) to mkv. Sadly I have to use this mkv as current source, because the original bluray is broken and I need this movie in lower quality. Is it possible to "normalize" this mkv-source? I mean, the mkv-movie actually works fine in (e.g...

Hey, I transcoded many movies successfully. However there is one that "fails" after ~ 20% ( = ~30min of about 150min movie length). No error message pop'd up. It just finished it normally. Only the movie file size (due to movie length) told me that there was an error. I am not very fimilar...

Actually in ma case I could solve the problem by re-ripping the DVD. I dont know why, but somehow one of these lil *.ifo or *.bup files were corrupt/broken or something like that. After I overwrote these files again, it worked.

1st time for me. So It wasnt a bug thru HB. Thx for support anyway!

Well, if you don't decrypt your source, what will do it? Hint: not HandBrake. Sry for misunderstanding. It was decrypted, but in the past. My source is a DVD-copy. Full explanation: I have a DVD collection safetly stowed in cellar and I have copies (rips, decrypted) of this. Now I copied my copies ...