Handbrake Settings

General Discussions
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Hey, so I have been ripping a lot of my blu ray collection so I can put them on my Plex Server… I also had a hard drive get corrupted so I lost a chunk of my collection so I need to re rip and encode them… Since this happened I have decided I will also back up the encoded file so I can save time in the future if this happens again.

Since its been awhile since Ive done this I noticed the .265 codec is more supported now and having tested 1 movie with it, it seemed to play on all my TVs without any real issues. Switching to this codec will also aid me more in backing up the files, as I figured I have TONS of old DVD R blanks sitting around I’ll use those to back up the files… which sets my goal at adjusting handbrake so I can achieve decent quality on my movies while setting a goal on file size to under 4.7gb

Since I am an amateur at handbrake I figured I should run these setting by someone to make sure I am not doing something stupid that I will regret later.

I left picture and filters tabs alone
Video Tab:
Video Codec: H.265
FPS: 30 (Constant Framerate)
Optimize video: Medium Speed
Encoder Tune: None
Fast Decode Unchecked
Encoder Profile: Auto
Extra Options had this in it: strong-intra-smoothing=0:rect=0 I left that alone
Quality: Constant Quality: I currently have it at 20, will move up to 23 or so if file sizes get too large

Then Audio Tab:
I just Clear everything out and go Auto Passthru since I have no clue really what Im doing there so I try to play it safe

Subtitles:
I just throw the english subtitle in, if there are foreign parts I find that translation track then I burn that in

Chapters I leave alone

And finally the container I pick is .MKV

So does anyone see any obvious problems I will regret later? Id rather get it right now then waste the time it will take to encode these movies… I dont mind the slow encodes but I would rather not have to do the same movie many times :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help

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I suggest you download vidcoder .
It’s free, uses handbrake backend and much more user friendly.

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I’ll check it out, Thanks :slight_smile:

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@wilsontray said:
… I noticed the .265 codec is more supported now and having tested 1 movie with it, it seemed to play on all my TVs without any real issues.

Be careful here. You may paint yourself into a corner by encoding to H.265.

Have you watched your server cpu load while playing a H.265 file?
Have you tried to play on all TVs at once?
Are you 100% positive that you never, ever want to play media via remote connection, on different devices than your Tvs?

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@OttoKerner said:

@wilsontray said:
… I noticed the .265 codec is more supported now and having tested 1 movie with it, it seemed to play on all my TVs without any real issues.

Be careful here. You may paint yourself into a corner by encoding to H.265.

Absolutely !!

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True, I guess I didnt think about that… I know my server can handle 2 TVs running the same time, which is the most its ever had to do but I guess I didnt think about the remote connections…

I still want to try to aim to keep my files under 4.7gb I just was worried about the quality loss that would signify in .264 as atm most my movies end up between 5-6gb in .264 ofc I am not at all experienced with handbrake so I may of been doing it wrong.

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Change your constant quality to 21 or 22 and set speed of encode to slow or slowest. For Blu Ray this gives me files that range from 3-6GB and I really see no quality loss. The slower encode speed gives better quality with smaller files. More time to chew on the data to give you the best output file.

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Get Vidcoder and u can set a profile to make your files any size .

Try 2,3,4gb or whatever and see what you like.