Hello. You recommend short slices for samples using Avidemux. After inspecting source video for video/audio formats, I slice and Save to .mkv. Unfortunately Handbrake 1.9.1 for Mac (M1 processor MacBook Air, macOS Sonoma) does not Open the file. Nor do other .mkv users (VLC etc)_ recognize or open them . Any instructions or manual available to check my encode options? I find none at the Avidemux download site.

I followed these settings etc my pc will take 9 hours to do my 4k item 😮😮....I've I done something wrong?

VERY deceiving when it comes to subtitles. he just unchecks them but this format does NOT support them. Very very VERY deceiving.

I'm using similar settings I was trying to search and find out if I was doing something wrong.... as I'm seeing 32 gig files come out between 2.5 and 8 gb in size. An immense savings over the 32gb + source files.

videophiles dream of uncompressed data btw!!!

Hi, could you guide me through the following, I got a few Blurays (not the actual disks, but ISO Files, around 45GB each) of a few movies and Tv shows. I’d like to extract the movies, and individual episodes from each ISO File, and convert them/ encode them to a much smaller nice mkv files, How do I rip the ISO files? How do I encode the ts files from the BMD folder..

Do you have a video on how to include subtitles from regular DVDs? I'm trying to figure out how to keep the subtitles options when I rip the DVD to my hard drive

Seems very hit or miss for me. Sometimes I will get lucky and the converted file will be like 20-25% the size of the original, but usually it is more like 75-80% of the original file size. It sucks because 4K videos take a looong time to encode, and there is no way of knowing whether I'll get lucky with 20% file size, or 80% file size 😕 I even have my settings at a very slightly lower quality setting (25 instead of 24) which theoretically would make the file even smaller.

Also are you going to do a AV1 4K UHD encode? I heard it’s way efficient than x265. Would love to see some samples..

With your settings what’s the output size of a remux 60GB file source?

What about 4k HDR. I recorded PS5 gameplay and when I tried to compressed it it basically just went down a quarter (from 1gb) since it was a 3 minute. I used the generic numbers since I’m new to Handbrake. Thanks in advance!

Thank you very much for showing. This will help me finalise my 15 year old mini cooper which I never managed to paint and finish.

Thank you so much! This was a life saver!

Mine doesnt say export multipal

Thank you so Much for Making this tutorial for Free ❤

Thank you for your video! 2 Questions. 1. Why choosing 10-bit encoding, if the source is just 8 bit? It's a waste of space. 2. Profile 5.1, while most Android TVs are capable of max. Profile 4.1? People should check, where to play their movies.

should i use nvenc or not does it have disadvantages

and for convert BluRay to AV1 using nvenc nvdia card, do you know the best setting. thanks

I used these settings but the file was not playable on my pc. Any ideas? Thanks

With these settings, the video quality will be extremely low, For a small size video with good quality, crf should be set to 18-20.

Great video, clear instructions and clear audio - thanks. I'm revisiting HandBrake after years of using ffmpeg cli on its own and also using Tdarr with HandBrake. TIP - instead of using a separate program to slice a sample size of the movie, just choose the 'Chapters' option to only do 1 chapter. 🙂

01:59 WHY DONT YOU SELECT HEVC 10BIT (NVenc)? it save lote more time..35 gb bluray ripped tp 5 gb in 12 minutes

As for ¡audio codecs, you could try Libopus which can offer comparable (or slightly better) audio quality at lower bitrates.

Excellent, thank you!

Hi ive been ripping my DVD collection using these settings but ive come across something that i noticed. I ripped a PAL DVD (Firehouse Dog 2007) using makeMKV. Mediainfo before encode says video is 720*576 Encoded using your settings above, selecting 576p PAL SD for the resolution limit. Ran the file through filebot and (per my format) adds the height to the filename.... 480p, hmmmm So i ran the encoded file through Mediainfo and there it was video dimensions now 720*552 Is this right? I dont understand why handbrake does this although i can see that if i have optimal size AND Allow Upscaling ticked handbrake will preserve the 576 height Im wondering whether this will have any negative effect down the road from a) the height not being perfectly 576 or b) filebot naming it as a 480p (telling me its an NTSC DVD when its not) Thanks

Fantastic tutorial! Do you have recommended settings for reducing file size without any noticeable changes in quality? Space isn't really a concern, and I'm looking to encode an 80GB file down to around 30GB, so that it's reduced, but almost no indication that it was reduced. Thanks in advance!

If you're on an Nvidia GPU you should select H.265 10-bit NVENC instead, that will speed up the encoding significantly. Should take less than an hour for a 2 hour movie if you're on a RTX 3080.

I want to upscale my old WWF stuff Will this still apply if I upscale it to 4K or even 1080p ?

Would these also be good settings for DVD Rips?

It'd be good to have a follow up explaining in detail why you chose various options.

My file was 72 gigs. Looking like a 25 minute conversion if the estimates are correct. I let the Atmos 7.1 passthru since my soundbar does a decent job with that codec, but I compressed the AC3 bitrate on the DTS 5.1 secondary track. It's not a spatial track like Atmos or DDS:X, so I wouldn't lose much detail. If I had to guess, it should be around 6gigs with these changes. We shall see shortly.

This all useful but what would you use for 720?

no me soluciona mi problema este video, aqui no explica como añadir el dolby vision a los videos

Another stellar video. But I was disappointed yesterday when I discovered that my expensive DVD/blu-ray drive can't read Ultra HD (4K) blu-rays. They all include an HD blu-ray disc, so it's not all bad. I have enough hard drive storage that I can just rip the video to raw MKV. Jellyfin on Roku can play those raw MKV's just fine. Making things a bit more disappointing is that my 4K TV can do HDR. I may need to buy a new optical drive...

What if the audio only allows me to select stereo or 2 channels, which options/changes should I pick?

Great tutorial, and an excellent writeup on your website. Thanks. Subscribed.

Thank you, do you have any setting recommendations to get it down only1/4 the size please? I would be happy to go from 40GB to 10 if it means more quality. Thanks again.

Excellent video. Thank you very much 👏🏻👍🙂

Before the conversion there is a way to know how many gigabytes the file will be?

3:33 number 7 is wrong too but it didn't highlight it. 5:04 also an extra space in this one.

what's that network status tracker on your menu bar? great video and thanks for sharing this info!

Thank you, this was very useful. If I wanted to keep multiple audio tracks, would it be ok to select mkv format, rather than mp4, and keeping the rest of the settings the same as the video ?

Can I use the settings with the animation preset?

Hi! THX for this great video! I Wanna convert from 4k to 1080p how can i do it?

I tried this and I have a pretty solid PC. But when I tried this it said it was gonna take like 2 days to handbrake. I don't mind if it's like a over night thing. But i dont have 2 days to waste in a handbrake file. What am I doing wrong?

Haha my 1 is evo has well is evo x my decals come of but it will not stay on the model when it dry it come of

Great video thankyou! I had a few questions if you dont mind? 1. Why do you disable foreign subtitle burning? I find it so annoying to watch a rip which doesnt have subtitled foreign dialogue e.g. Return of the Jedi Jabba speach. 2. Why dont you pass through the audio track? On your DVD video i learned to pass through AC3 which ive been doing religiously - for my DVDs 3. Why dont you pass through the metadata on the summary tab? 4. Does it matter what region my Bluray comes from? Should i build a separate profile for PAL and NTSC?

Should note that using BT.709 to convert the HDR10 video will result in a slightly dimmer, less saturated video. It does a decent job converting, but the end results will like a bit dull if not properly converted using other software.

Basically the same as how I make mine, except encoder options I leave at auto and advance options blank. Would love some more in depth details as to what the code is and why change profile and level.

I notice in Plex that when I try to convert it down to say 1080p, its not there. I see 720p or less... How do I fix that?