I understand what that slider does, but the presets themselves are confusing me.
From left to right, those presets are:
- High Quality
- High Performance
- Fast
- Medium
- Slow
- Default
Similarly, Slow is slower but yields better quality than Fast.
But how do they compare with each other?
Is High Quality better than Slow? Is High Performance faster than Fast?
And where does Default fit in all this? Is it comparable to Medium? Or in between Medium and Slow?
These presets would be much less confusing if they were in order, but not only is High Performance listed between High Quality and Slow, Fast is also in between those two presets.
I'd like some more information about these presets, because it's not at all clear to me what each of them actually stand for.
Earlier versions were significantly more obvious, with Fastest, Fast, Medium, Slow, Slowest, Panacea. At least they were in order, so you could tell Panacea was likely slower and even higher quality than Slowest.
I doubt there would be any difference in platforms, but just in case: I'm using the Windows x64 version of Handbrake.