Blu Ray to H265 QSV suggestions??
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:43 pm
ripping and encoding a bunch of Blu Rays to my laptop for travel and RV consumption. Trying to figure out best settings. I've read a ton and my results have been good in testing but I feel there is room for improvement.
Hardware Acer R14 laptop I5-6200U Skylake with 8 gig ram, 256gig SSD
2TB external USB Drive
Pioneer External Blu Ray (BDR-xd05S) drive in Performance mode
Test Blu Ray is Fifth Element
Current procedure is to rip movie to harddrive using AnyDVD rip to file/folder. This takes approx 35-39 minutes. IMGBURN and AnyDVD rip to .ISO take same amount of time. Before I enabled performance mode on the Pioneer, it was 90 minutes.
Load folder into Handbrake 1.2.2 and Encode. Test results as follows
"fast" 1080p preset .MP4 H264 QSV with all defaults generated a file size of 9.2 gig and looked and sounded great
"fast" 1080p preset .MP4 H265 QSV with all defaults generated a file size of 4.5 gig and looked and sounded great
QSV encoding times were similar at approx 1 hour for H264 and H265. Non QSV encoding times were all 5 to 7+ hours and I abandon encoding. I'm not interested in long encoding times so I will be sticking with QSV. I understand that x264 and 10/12 bit x265 encoding may yield better results but I'm not interested in long encoding times which leaves me using QSV. BTW, I'm averaging 40+fps with QSV with this setup. I like that my procedure is only 2 steps and takes less than 2 hours.
So why not just use the "fast" 1080p preset and be done with it? Like I said, I feel like I'm leaving some quality and or space on the table and I would like some feedback from other more experienced users. I would also like better audio. My test encodes were the default AAC 160kbs downmix to stereo. I would like to improve that and I'm not sure if I should just change it to 320 AAC or just do passthru AAC?
Thanks ahead of time for your imput
Hardware Acer R14 laptop I5-6200U Skylake with 8 gig ram, 256gig SSD
2TB external USB Drive
Pioneer External Blu Ray (BDR-xd05S) drive in Performance mode
Test Blu Ray is Fifth Element
Current procedure is to rip movie to harddrive using AnyDVD rip to file/folder. This takes approx 35-39 minutes. IMGBURN and AnyDVD rip to .ISO take same amount of time. Before I enabled performance mode on the Pioneer, it was 90 minutes.
Load folder into Handbrake 1.2.2 and Encode. Test results as follows
"fast" 1080p preset .MP4 H264 QSV with all defaults generated a file size of 9.2 gig and looked and sounded great
"fast" 1080p preset .MP4 H265 QSV with all defaults generated a file size of 4.5 gig and looked and sounded great
QSV encoding times were similar at approx 1 hour for H264 and H265. Non QSV encoding times were all 5 to 7+ hours and I abandon encoding. I'm not interested in long encoding times so I will be sticking with QSV. I understand that x264 and 10/12 bit x265 encoding may yield better results but I'm not interested in long encoding times which leaves me using QSV. BTW, I'm averaging 40+fps with QSV with this setup. I like that my procedure is only 2 steps and takes less than 2 hours.
So why not just use the "fast" 1080p preset and be done with it? Like I said, I feel like I'm leaving some quality and or space on the table and I would like some feedback from other more experienced users. I would also like better audio. My test encodes were the default AAC 160kbs downmix to stereo. I would like to improve that and I'm not sure if I should just change it to 320 AAC or just do passthru AAC?
Thanks ahead of time for your imput