HandBrake

Seems to be very confusing if the RF settings aren't compareable to each other. Not only isn't RF scales comparable between different encoders (x264 vs x265 vs QSV), it's not always comparable between different settings on the same encoder! If you use the same encoder and don't change settings too ...

... and the encode causes PC to crash to a black screen. This is *always* either a hardware problem, OS problem, or driver problem. It is the responsibility of an OS to ensure that an application can not crash the system. So by definition, this can't be an application problem. Yep, it should also b...

[18:30:14] mux: track 0, 89816 frames, 18762472 bytes, 50.08 kbps, fifo 16384 [18:30:14] mux: track 1, 140481 frames, 48813443 bytes, 130.30 kbps, fifo 32768 To expand on what rollin_eng says, in the encode log you posted you have 46MB audio and 18 MB video, so a 50MB output file would only have......

Their answer is kind of hard to decode (to me) but my best guess is that they're saying that the file they got had 3 GOP but that their code incorrectly didn't pick up that x265/Handbrake is using "Open GOP" and as a result their code decides that it's really ONE large closed GOP, presumab...

Hello, I recently tested with which x264 Preset I will get the smallest Files. So I set RF to 20 and encoded the same input file with all different x264 Preset settings. So in the end I get the smallest file at x264 Preset settung "veryfast". This is strange so I changed the RF setting bu...

Looks like Certum offers very cheap code-signing certificates to Open Source developers. Probably second cheapest option is KSoftware which offers a Comodo code signing certificates much cheaper than Comodo. In both cases there is a yearly fee, not free. Doing the code signing in itself isn't that b...

Also an extra question regarding BIOS settings... Should I test all the different power configs, or is there a generally agreed upon best setting for CPU Power Management, ie: best with Turbo Boost and C-States and stuff, or better to set for Max performance (ie: 100% clock all the time). I'm not c...

We run 4 simultaneous encodings per submitted video, and sometimes users submit multiple videos simultaneuosly, so we may be running 4,8,12,16,20... HandBrakeCLI's at once. CentOS 6 was chosen simply because all of our other hundreds of servers are on it, and I feel 99% comfortable with it, whereas...

Hi all! I'm building a 'massive' transcoder box and I'm looking for help optimizing and improving transcode performance. This is for the media sharing website RushTera.com. Users upload large raw videos often times greater than 10GB in size. When sharing a video we run it through transcoding to pre...

Some good info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016/01/h-dot-265-slash-hevc-vs-h-dot-264-slash-avc-50-percent-bit-rate-savings-verified No, it's complete nonsense! BBC R&D should be ashamed of posting that, but then the byline is by two of the report authors so there was no independent check. The...

True. But (ever since Maxym added more return codes, IIRC), any known errors will result in a non-zero exit code. HandBrake can't report errors that went by undetected I'm afraid… I guess if one wanted to catch even more failures one way for full encodes might be to compare the run-time for input a...

Skylake is likely to support hardware based encoding and decoding of HEVC so the driver update will probably be released before/on the IDF August 2015 Yeah, I don't think they've officially confirmed it but most of the tech press thinks it will and based on timing it does seems fairly likely even i...

I don't know the name of CPU cooler I am using. I can't find the order on NewEgg or Amazon where I would have purchased it. I believe it is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus. Like this: http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-air-cooler/hyper-212-plus/ That's a classic tower cooler that provide very g...

It's definitely worth trying underclocking. I see a number of people that have power issues with the FX-8350, several people thinks 6+2 phase power and bulky VRM cooling is absolute minimum for reliable function with FX-8350 and your motherboard looks like 4+1 phase and not much VRM cooling. Ah, I s...

I would normally agree with you that spontaneous shut-downs of computers are commonly caused by one or more hardware issues. However, in this case, the computer only exhibits this shutdown behavior with HandBrake. I have MakeMKV also on the same host and have allowed it to run for hours with no iss...

Various benchmarks suggests your new processor "should" be on the order of 10-15% slower than the old one, though I expect the massive difference in TDP (35W vs 15W) means the difference will be much larger in anything that runs for extended periods like video encoding, half the speed is b...

I'm not looking to restrict my hardware completely, just limit Handbrake's resource consumption. I'm not sure why this should be rejected; if x264 has this option then giving Handbrake control over it would be an improvement; do x265 and ffmpeg have similar options? Even if it only works for certai...

It should also be mentioned that X5365 is well, a dinosaur by now. It was launched in 2007. The 5160 (no X) you also mention is even older, it was part of the initial launch of Core2 processors in June 2006. The X5365 is a rare enough model that there's no single or dual benchmarks for it on cpubenc...

Yes, just changing the "brand" to mp42 fixed it. Go figure. The major brand (ftyp) list I found says isom is "MP4 Base Media v1", I guess the decoder decided it was only going to decode "Baseline" profile based on that. I have no idea if that's what intended by the sta...

... The decoder will resample to DAR as necessary, the screen will scale that to display size as necessary. Two separate and distinct operations. One, both, or neither may take place; but with anamorphic source, the first must take place at some point. I'll eagerly await the results of your control...

That's an interesting conjecture; but again, I've never seen any evidence of it. The decoder will resample to DAR as necessary, the screen will scale that to display size as necessary. Two separate and distinct operations. One, both, or neither may take place; but with anamorphic source, the first ...

Here's something thing to consider: Display pixels are always square, so whether it is better to interpolate and resample in the encoder or the playback becomes a pretty minor discussion. I've never been able to see a difference, and it's important to remember the player does not physically deliver...

I have run this system overclocked for years. I have, in the past, used Handbrake on it successfully. While overclocked. No idea why it does not work now, but I'm perfectly happy to remove the overclock while running Handbrake - I usually batch things up and let them run all night anyway. As hardwa...

This is a question I've seen asked since about the year 2000. The mkv container format has provision for a menu system. How far away are we from being able to convert a complete DVD, including the menus, into an mkv file? As I understand it this is wrong, as it currently stands there's no matroska ...

When I transcode something with High Profile, RF: 18, x264 Preset: very slow, Detelecine: Default, I get a 260-ishMB file for a 22min TV show (after about an hour of crunching on a 13" MacBook Pro). If I go on the web and download the same show I can get a file (.mp4) that is about 170MB and t...