Future of High Profile Preset

[DrXenos]

Hi. I apologize if this information is already posted somewhere (or if your policy is to not reveal future plans).

I see that the "High Profile" preset is now labeled "legacy" in the nightly build. Does this mean it is being deprecated and will be removed in the future? If so, can you give me some advice on what to replace it with (I see there is a plethora of new presets). I use this profile exclusively, but generating mkv files instead of mp4. I don't modify it's defaults (except to enable detelecine & decombing) and I typically leave the videos I am transcoding at their existing picture size (sometimes I reduce 1080 Blu-rays to 720 or even 480).

Thanks,
DrX

[Deleted User 13735]

I believe Legacy has always meant Baseline profile.
What do you see that has changed?

[DrXenos]

I'm not referring to the 264 profiles, but the HandBrake preset called "High Profile."

I'm not I don't see an changes. I just noticed that the Windows GUI version (which I use to visually inspect sources before I run them through the cmdline) now put that preset in a group called "Legacy," with the preset name prefixed with the same.

I was just worried that meant the "High Profile" preset was being retired.

Thanks.

[s55]

DrXenos, it is being retired. Will be left in for 1 version to allow people to get used to the new presets. So to be clear, it'll be included in 1.0. No guarentees for any feature release there after.

HQ 1080p30 Surround is probably the closest match. (Might be a tad slower and in theory might produce a marginally better result since it uses the "Slow" not "Medium" x264 preset)
Altough there is nothing stopping you using any settings you wish.

[DrXenos]

Thanks. Can you tell me what settings the "High Profile" preset uses? It use to be shown in old "trac" documentation, but I can't find it in the new stuff.

[s55]

Just load the app up and look at the settings. It's not changed.

[Woodstock]

If you export the preset to a file, the result is readable in a text editor. That file might not be usable in the next version, but it will tell you what was set in it.

[DrXenos]

Awesome! Thanks, Woodstock. I've never noticed that option.

[DrXenos]

What I'd really like to know (and what the old documentation use to show) is what command line options are used by a given preset. Is there way to get that information?

[Deleted User 11865]

Presets don't necessarily correspond to a set of command-line options. There are things you can do with the GUI that can't be translated to a command line (e.g. in terms of automatic track selection and so on).

[DrXenos]

I'm more interested in what 264 settings the preset uses, not what tracks are selected, etc. The latter I can figure out. The former is black magic to me.

Thanks.

[Deleted User 11865]

That's quite easy to figure out, all those settings are on the video panel

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--encoder-preset medium
--encoder-tune none
--encoder-profile high
--encoder-level 4.1

[DrXenos]

I thought I remembered from the old Trac docs that there were some advanced "tweak" settings for 264 uses in the high profile preset. No?

[Deleted User 11865]

Yes, but there were removed in version 0.9.something, can't recall which one exactly.

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--encopts b-adapt=2:rc-lookahead=50

…which put the old High Profile preset somewhere between medium and slow x264 presets.

[DrXenos]

Thanks, Rodeo. Very helpful.

[s55]

I think HandBrakeCLI --preset-list still prints out the CLI query for each preset too.

[DrXenos]

Ok, thanks. I'll check it out.

[Deleted User 11865]

I think HandBrakeCLI --preset-list still prints out the CLI query for each preset too.

Not in master, IIRC, because CLI presets are now JSON-based. But true for any build up to 0.10.5