Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

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ahnooie
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Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

Post by ahnooie »

I encoded a video with:

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HandBrakeCLI -i $SRC/$FILE -o $DEST/$filename.$DEST_EXT --preset=$HB_PRESET --subtitle scan -F -E fdk_haac
With HB_PRESET="Normal" and again with HB_PRESET="High Profile"

In the case of Normal the video output looked great, and was 5.5GB in size, in High Profile the output looked a little pixelated at times and and the video size was 1.4GB. Is this correct behavior or could I be doing something wrong? I was wonder the impression that High Profile merely made the encoding time take longer than Normal but didn't reduce the quality of the video.

Output of HandBrakeCli -z ...

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   + Normal:  -e x264  -q 20.0 -a 1 -E faac -B 160 -6 dpl2 -R Auto -D 0.0 --audio-copy-mask aac,ac3,dtshd,dts,mp3 --audio-fallback ffac3 -f mp4 --loose-anamorphic --modulus 2 -m --x264-preset veryfast --h264-profile main --h264-level 4.0

   + High Profile:  -e x264  -q 20.0 -a 1,1 -E faac,copy:ac3 -B 160,160 -6 dpl2,auto -R Auto,Auto -D 0.0,0.0 --audio-copy-mask aac,ac3,dtshd,dts,mp3 --audio-fallback ffac3 -f mp4 -4 --decomb --loose-anamorphic --modulus 2 -m --x264-preset medium --h264-profile high --h264-level 4.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with handbrake-cli 0.9.9+dfsg-2~2.gbpa4c3e9build1

Thanks.
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Re: Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

Post by Deleted User 11865 »

That much of a difference is not normal in any event, but without logs (stderr output)…

That being said, I can hazard a guess:

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HandBrakeCLI -i "$SRC/$FILE" -o "$DEST/$filename.$DEST_EXT" --preset="$HB_PRESET" --subtitle scan -F -E fdk_haac
…would probably work better.
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Re: Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

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Note 0.9.9 is not supported; upgrade to the current release or nightly for help.

Also the Ubuntu-provided builds are not supported, because they intentionally break them. Use jstebbin's PPAs for supported builds.

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ahnooie
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Re: Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

Post by ahnooie »

Rodeo wrote:That being said, I can hazard a guess:
It was indeed the missing quotes, thanks!
mduell wrote:Note 0.9.9 is not supported; upgrade to the current release or nightly for help.

Also the Ubuntu-provided builds are not supported, because they intentionally break them. Use jstebbin's PPAs for supported builds.

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I'll look into switching to the PPA, thanks.

Also, my apologies for not posting the log. Somehow I missed what I now see is an inconspicuous notice ...at the top of the forum ...in red. ...and bold.
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Re: Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

Post by Woodstock »

I don't even think use of presets was supported in the CLI prior to the current nightly builds.

Did that even make it into 0.10.x?
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Re: Should High Profile be worse quality than Normal Preset?

Post by Deleted User 11865 »

Woodstock wrote:I don't even think use of presets was supported in the CLI prior to the current nightly builds.

Did that even make it into 0.10.x?
Built-in preset have always been available in the CLI (they were hardcoded). The ability to use custom presets is new to the nightly branch.
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