HandBrake

Whenever I click the "Activity Log" button in HandBrake and then the "Copy to Clipboard" button at the top of the Log Viewer, I receive this message: An Unknown Error has occured. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocatio...

Personally, I'd recommend ripping the DVDs with something like MakeMKV before dealing with HandBrake. It's an extra step, but it's likely to iron out any problems you will ever have with DVD structure and access.

The best picture setting if you have no concerns about size is 0 (on the constant quality scale on the video tab). It's a completely lossless version of your source. Though it you're looking for that, you're better off using something like MakeMKV to rip the files directly. The advantage of handbrak...

Unless I'm totally misunderstanding the advanced query field as it relates to QSV, I can't seem to get it to work either. As far as I understood, I'm intended to enter options as described here: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/QuickSyncOptions. I'm new to handbrake, so please correct me if I'm wrong!...

I think the article he is referring to is this one: http://missingremote.com/review/intel-quick-sync-examining-haswell-performance It's not from Ananadtech, but is referenced in an Anandtech article on the subject. The last chart in the article shows that the QSV-encoded (Haswell) video scores highe...