Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

General questions or discussion about HandBrake, Video and/or audio transcoding, trends etc.
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Imbacore
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Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

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Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering? I'm only interested in the audio tracks (which I will extract using another program).




HandBrake version 1.2.2




Windows 7 64-bit

Thanks! ^_^
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Re: Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

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drop the resolution as low as it will go and use x264 preset ultrafast at the highest RF
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Re: Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

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If you're only interested in the audio, why are you bothering with handbrake to begin with?

Or are you using handbrake in place of "ripping software", which would be faster?
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Re: Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

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I found mpeg2 to be slightly faster than h.264 on ultrafast

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-e mpeg2 -Y 108 -X 192
^ slightly better than

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 -e x264 --encoder-preset ultrafast -Y 108 -X 192 
To Woodstock, I'm sure my case isn't the same as the OP, but my reason to ignore the video is that I found that the audio in the transcode didn't come out the way I expected and I wanted to fix my scripts to get it right for the next time.
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Re: Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

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And scale the video down to 32x32
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Re: Not interested in the video --- what's the ultimate garbage settings for video so I can speed up the rendering?

Post by ronald119 »

You could if you only want audio use this commandline for ffmpeg (if the source is mp4):

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ffmpeg -i %1 -c:a copy -vn -sn "%~n1.m4a
Saves a lot on the filesize too.

See also here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/991 ... from-video
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