HandBrake

HB can use more than one CPU at a time, depends on many factors. Indeed, which is why before the OP goes and buys a 5GHz i9 they may be better served by understanding how much HB will make use of said CPU for their own Preset. My Preset is a modified HQ 576p25 Surround setting with fixed framerate....

I'm looking to put together a list of things to consider: number of cores/threads You may be interested in these results, hardware is: Dell T5610 2x Xeon E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz Typical time to run 4GB DVD TS Rip to 1.5GB m4v 20min using one CMD at a time Typical time to run 4GB DVD TS Rip to 1.5GB m4...

I don’t use it myself but according to the CLI —json will change the FORMAT of the log file not actually generate a log file. --json Log title, progress, and version info in JSON format Understood, which is why I was so happy that I was pointed to the log creation page which explained how to do it....

What issues were you having with —json? I generally have permission issues even in Windows 10. For example I can only save the output file in the same folder structure as the original one, the flag "--json" would return no log file. Managed to get around things by using good old Excel to ...

rollin_eng wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:31 pm If I recall correctly x264 will generally use 8-12 threads.

Right, ok perfect, so either increase CPU speed or be happy. Multi CPU is not a factor.

Thanks,

Andrew.

rollin_eng wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:24 pm The logging switch is part of the OS not HBCLI.

Ok, up to you, its really useful and might be worth mentioning in the CLI docs then, I couldn't get "--json" to work.

Andrew.

Other than that you have more CPU than x264 really needs. As you noted you could run multiple instances but this can have its own issues. Understood, so practically speaking my total time taken floor is about 24 minutes for a ~4GB DVD rip to ~1.5GB HQ 546p Surround m4v file. What I am asking is eff...

To whom it may concern: Can you please amend (CLI Options List): https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/cli/command-line-reference.html To include the logging parameters from: https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/help/activity-log.html HandBrake’s command line interface outputs to the standard streams s...

rollin_eng wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:59 am Your presets are using very different settings thus different results.

The subject matter is low'ish CPU usage (#50%), not really the ensuing file structure.

Is there a way in which I can get Handbrake to use more resources?

Thanks,

Andrew

This is not a general question, it's a support request for specific encodes. I wouldn't say its a support request, I am just asking the community if anyone has had a similar experience with low'ish CPU usage. I've run the same script on two T5610 machines with the same CPUs (one has 32GB the other ...

rollin_eng wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:01 pm You should probably start your own thread with this issue.

Makes sense, done.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Hardware: Dell T5610 Dual Xeon X5 2630 v2 (6 cores 12 threads per CPU), 32GB DDR3 RAM When running via Command line (CMD.exe) with --preset "H.264 MKV 576p25" is see 65-70% CPU usage When running via Command line (CMD.exe) with --preset "DVD576" is see 40-50% CPU usage Only diffe...

Just a note to say that I get very odd behaviour in terms of CPU usage. Running a downmix preset the CPU usage will run at above 80%, whilst when running AC3 Passthru I can only get 40-50%.

Understood, I don't have too many options though as my Linux machines are on purpose on a physically separate network so am tied to Windows. I'm kind of ok with it if I can solve my current two stumbling blocks: -cannot save a file to a separate folder (needs to go into the same folder where it scan...

Understood, I took your advice and worked off profiles created in the GUI rather than reinventing the wheel and doing it manually.

Cheers.

Am struggling with permissions now, fine on the GUI side, but if I move away from the source folder in CLI I get a file output permission error. Have looked in https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/cli/command-line-reference.html See no reference to permissions, have tried using local Desktop and Vide...

That worked really well, command line I used was: handbrakecli.exe --preset-import-gui --preset "HQ 1080p30 Surround" -i "T:\\SD DVD\\10,000 BC" -o "T:\\SD DVD\\10,000 BC\\10,000 excel 1.m4v" Now if I wanted to run multiple commands, would I simply stick them in a "...

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Dear All,

Is there a function by which I can see what CLI command line is generated when I run a process via the GUI? I can see the Log file but just wondering if there is an output screen of the actual command equivalent.

Thanks.

Andrew.

This makes sense, however I want to run say only 10 at a time rather than scan a 1000 folders. To do this I will use excel to concatenate the command line for each DVD folder structure. Question is: How to a run a sequence of commands, by this I mean "Encode Structure 1", wait till complet...