You are wasting your time with HEVC and DVD encodes.
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your machine, as you found out, will take FOREVER to do anything - 3 times FOREVER to do anything with HEVC.
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Did you find out how many devices connected to your Plexiverse cough up a hair-ball on HEVC?
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Better go do that.
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if you have the ‘Paid’ Version of Handbrake - make sure you have the very latest version - 'cause it’s free and has some excellent improvements.
Use these settings (Exactly), make small DVD files - you probably can’t distinguish from the orignals - and enjoy life a little (DVD Settings are in the second section down the page a bit).
Test some files, the speed of the encode, how they look on your displays and see if that’ll work for you.
Practice your HEVC skills for when you get 4K and really need them.
Easy - by making a ‘Preview’ of an HEVC encode (240 seconds is a good test file), dropping it in an ‘Other Videos’ Library and testing it on all your possible devices.
Like this test - I keep around for testing things like this:
