Intel this week released a new GPU driver for newer generation CPUs and Win10 64-bit. According to the release notes, they not only fixed the Handbrake problems but included a new version of the Intel Media SDK that improves QSV encoding.
I tried it out last night, encoding the Blu-ray version of Bad Day At Black Rock to H.265 "Quality". The encode took about 30 minutes, and the result looks really good. File size was reduced from 23GB to 6GB.
I did an A/B test with the two files, and most of the time I couldn't tell which was which. There are a few telltale signs in a few scenes, but overall the HEVC encode is pretty much archive quality.
I have lots of storage space available, so I'll keep my backups in uncompressed AVC, but for anyone looking to save space this is now a viable option.
Thank you, Intel!
New Intel driver and H.265 QSV encoding - excellent quality!
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Re: New Intel driver and H.265 QSV encoding - excellent quality!
Quite true. I should have said "AVC with no additional compression". In other words, straight off the disc.