Best Optimal Settings to Convert DVD Video to H.265 HEVC in Handbrake on Windows, Mac & Linux

[@BrianThomas]

Just a little tip. I've been backing up my DVDs which are 720 x 432. I noticed if I changed the resolution and allowed upscaling with a limit of 720. In conjunction with your settings. The results are wicked awesome. The resolution comes out to be 1280x720 and it looks much better on a 4K TV. It looks perfect on my phone and amazing on 720p & 1080p TVs. Thank you!!!

[@thewebernets]

Glad you are having some success!

[@BrianThomas]

5:33 Yamato is a good movie by the way. It was great seeing Star Blazers come to life.

[@thewebernets]

Yeah I love that movie. I spent 4 days with Mighty Mo in Bremerton WA a LONG time ago and I couldn't believe the size of her 16" guns. Can't imagine what it would have been like when Yamato and Musashi's 18" went off. Love those old Battleships!

[@trevorcoard8777]

Excellent video. Thank you so much!

[@thewebernets]

You are most welcome Trevor - Glad you liked it.

[@eracer1111]

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

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Im glad you found it all useful. Thanks for subscribing to!

[@bobjr663]

thanks for the settings works great for me

[@thewebernets]

Glad you found it useful

[@jeffhilton4100]

Thanks for the video, Curious to see your settings for blu-ray.

[@thewebernets]

Glad you enjoyed the video - BluRay settings coming soon!

[@zibenzi]

@@thewebernets How soon ? :)

[@stevenc5217]

Thanks for these settings! Do you by any chance have settings for 1080P and 4K, or 4K HDR?

[@noahmarriott8188]

On his channel he has them 👍

[@xeatdefeat179]

Handbrake has worked perfectly for me before and it still does work however, when I've tried to burn DVDs it cuts out half way through and says it's finished encoding yet when I play the "finished" file back it's all glitchy?

[@cybernetennis]

Ok you say you ripped your DVD video but you don't say how you have ripped it. What software are you using for that part of the process?

[@kiirabu197]

MakeMKV, it's free for DVDs but you gotta pay a one-time fee for Blu-rays or use the free trial for a month.

[@sethterwilliger9434]

@@kiirabu197 make mkv is totally free and always has been

[@loboqueso5392]

Can I use the settings with the animation preset?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, I haven't done a lot of testing with animation. You could definitely try it and see how you go, but I expect these settings won't be optimal for animation as it is more compressible than video.

[@nithianand66]

Great Video and thanks a lot....did KZbin supports H265 handbrake compressed video??

[@lanochilosa6243]

Awesome video! Thanks for taking the time to lay this out for us novices! Regarding subtitles, I have selected the preferred subtitle track, deselected "Forced Only" and "Burned In" and even though MediaInfo says there IS an English subtitle track, the track is not selectable in either Quicktime or VLC. Thoughts?

[@thewebernets]

Hi, Deselecting Forced and Burn In will make subtitles unavailable. Check out my article on how to include subtitles here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4uQq3uhYrl-nLM

[@Vary180]

1:40 why would i want it to crop the video? isn't it better to keep the original dimensions?

[@marcus3d]

To get rid of letterboxing. There's literally no reason what so ever why the video should contain black bars.

[@CDubya.82]

I might save space by compressing but realistically i didnt rip a disc with makemkv only to then compress and be no better than the 'streaming' platforms. Not to mention the time of reencode can be long and vary wildly depending on your PC.

[@BigBadBobCat]

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

[@Dr-AK]

why is MKV preferred over MP4? I am planning on using on plex. Just wondering, thank you for the information and video

[@thewebernets]

Hi. There have been many arguments over the years as to which is the better format. Some people say MKV is sharper, others prefer it because it is open and MP4 is somewhat proprietary. I personally prefer MKV because when I have a large file to copy to my server I can start watching it while it is still copying across. Whereas I have to wait for the whole MP4 file to finish copying before it will open and play. Im interested to hear if others have found the same on their systems.

[@Dr-AK]

@@thewebernets on Handbrake I noticed option for mp4 that says web optimized , states for progressive download (allow immediate playback over network without needed to download entire file...maybe this allows mp4 to function same way. I have some files that have dts-hd 7.1 and I noticed pass-through was available on mkv but not mp4 for some reason only E-AC3 on mp4 is available for dts-hd. Also the subtitles seem to allow more option on mkv. But I wonder if mp4 gives better file sizes or faster transcoding? Thanks

[@Vary180]

if you were to change the audio track to FLAC, would the re-encoding process cause loss even though it's a lossless codec? or would it re-encode without losing anything?

[@foaley77]

why would you want to use FLAC?

[@Chupchahao]

nice

[@Vary180]

can you extract or inject audio and subtitle tracks with this?

[@grandpied]

I don't know if you can inject audio, but I do know you can burn SRT files (subtitles) into videos.

[@catgarcia2238]

WHAT SETTING WOULD YOU RECCOMEND FOR VHS TAPES?

[@thewebernets]

Hi - It depends on what settings you capture the video at. If you have captured the video at 480P then these settings will be fine.

[@catgarcia2238]

@@thewebernets 👍 also thank you for making this video. My DVD rips looks clean with these settings.

[@thewebernets]

@@catgarcia2238 You are very welcome - glad you found it useful

[@malbin5035]

How about BluRay?

[@lazinggu2051]

To rip DVD to H.265, you can use DumboFab DVD Ripper. 1. You're not suggested to adjust frame rate, if not necessary. 2. Lower the resolution. Typical DVD videos are 720×480 (NTSC) and 720×540 (PAL). Adjust the resolution to 640×480 won't make any quality difference. 3. Lower the bitrate to a lower level. For example, adjusting the original 2500 to bitrates of around 1800-2000 is acceptable without noticeable pixellation.

[@thewebernets]

Dumbofab is not free software, Handbrake is.

[@TheBruhh7274]

Bro, I have watched like 80000 of theses tutorial videos and the file size is bigger... This video is like just the rest. I don't understand anymore. This is bullshit

[@sethterwilliger9434]

I have been using hand brake for years and it works great

[@thewebernets]

Hi Geo-geyser. Im sorry to hear you are having trouble with Handbrake. Its a great piece of software, but like most software if it is not configured "just so" the results can spin out of control very quickly. If you would like to describe your process and results in detail in another comment perhaps myself or some of the other encoders here might be able to pinpoint what is causing the issue.

[@kannoramirez2288]

Your RF value is too low probably. RF 22 for 480p is good enough, for 1080p RF 24.