Fastest Handbrake rip

[navstar]

I know a lot of factors contribute to encoding speed. But I was just curious what the fastest SD encode someone has experienced.

I'm getting about 211 fps with from a DVD ISO using the "Normal" preset. (Mac Pro [mid 2010] 12-core 2.66GHz)

[mduell]

It's not very difficult to go faster.

HandBrake svn3529 (2010091501) - MinGW i386 - http://handbrake.fr

[19:19:41] * video track
[19:19:41] + decoder: mpeg2
[19:19:41] + bitrate 9800 kbps
[19:19:41] + frame rate: same as source (around 23.976 fps)
[19:19:41] + strict anamorphic
[19:19:41] + storage dimensions: 720 * 480 -> 720 * 358, crop 58/64/0/0, mod 0

[19:19:41] + encoder: x264

[19:20:21] work: average encoding speed for job is 356.688538 fps
[19:20:22] sync: got 14387 frames, 14409 expected
[19:20:22] mpeg2 done: 14525 frames

x264 [info]: SSIM Mean Y:0.9632592 (14.349db)
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:42.438 U:46.860 V:46.924 Avg:43.399 Global:41.227 kb/s:1735.92
[19:20:22] mux: track 0, 14387 frames, 130198805 bytes, 1735.82 kbps, fifo 64

[Deleted User 11865]

Handbrake Version: svn3667 x86_64 (2010110901)

[02:38:10] * video track
[02:38:10] + decoder: mpeg2
[02:38:10] + bitrate 9800 kbps
[02:38:10] + frame rate: same as source (around 25.000 fps)
[02:38:10] + strict anamorphic
[02:38:10] + storage dimensions: 720 * 576 -> 720 * 358, crop 110/108/0/0, mod 16

[02:38:10] + encoder: x264

[02:38:14] work: average encoding speed for job is 786.986633 fps
[02:38:14] mux: track 0, 3616 frames, 22239167 bytes, 1230.38 kbps, fifo 8
[02:38:15] sync: got 3616 frames, 3494 expected
[02:38:15] mpeg2 done: 3620 frames

[navstar]

Wow, that's impressive!

[Deleted User 11865]

Wow, that's impressive!

It's very fast but it looks like crap (or produces huge files if you give it enough bitrate to look OK).

With a computer as fast as yours (mine is only a Core i5 Quad iMac), I would be tempted to settle for the Normal preset's 200 fps (or rather, keep using my current "actual encode" settings, which are a fair bit slower). 200 fps is still about 8x realtime and gives you reasonably good compression efficiency.

[magao]

HandBrake svn3539 (2010091701) - MinGW i386 - http://handbrake.fr
8 CPUs detected <-- Actually 4 + hyperthreading

[08:57:16] * video track
[08:57:16] + decoder: mpeg2
[08:57:16] + bitrate 8500 kbps
[08:57:16] + frame rate: same as source (around 25.000 fps)
[08:57:16] + strict anamorphic
[08:57:16] + storage dimensions: 720 * 576 -> 720 * 572, crop 0/4/0/0, mod 0
[08:57:16] + pixel aspect ratio: 16 / 15
[08:57:16] + display dimensions: 768 * 572
[08:57:16] + encoder: x264
[08:57:16] + options: ref=1:bframes=1:subq=0:mixed-refs=0:8x8dct=1:b-pyramid=1:me=dia:no-fast-pskip=1:psy-rd=0.50,0.00:weightp=0:trellis=0
[08:57:16] + quality: 20.00 (RF)
[08:57:16] * subtitle track 1, English (id 20bd) Picture [VOBSUB] -> Pass-Through
[08:57:16] * subtitle track 2, English (id 21bd) Picture [VOBSUB] -> Pass-Through, Default
[08:57:16] * audio track 0
[08:57:16] + decoder: English (AC3) (2.0 ch) (track 1, id 80bd)
[08:57:16] + bitrate: 224 kbps, samplerate: 48000 Hz
[08:57:16] + AC3 passthrough

[09:04:16] work: average encoding speed for job is 450.667603 fps
[09:04:16] mux: track 0, 188874 frames, 1276277384 bytes, 1351.44 kbps, fifo 32

Core i7 860. Not bad for a complete 4:3 DVD (4 or 5 episodes of The Twelve Kingdoms anime). I only use these settings to quickly generate a file that I can use to find the right chapters for shows that don't have separate titles for each episode.

Those settings produce files about twice the size as my normal encoding settings, which encode at around 60FPS. I might be able to get faster results by dropping a few settings, but I've found in practice that by doing so I drop my CPU utilisation rather than increasing speed.

For reference, the normal (anime) settings are:

CRF: 20
ref=6:bframes=5:subq=9:mixed-refs=1:8x8dct=1:b-adapt=2:b-pyramid=1:me=umh:no-fast-pskip=1:psy-rd=0.50,0.00

For live action, the normal settings are the same except for psy-rd=1.00,0.10.