best video encoding format for movies?

nightrider1470 · 12 Sep 2017 at 23:02

Showing my age here, but I used to use divx and xvid back in the day.

I have legally backed up some Disney movies and would like to put them on a hard drive.

I would like best picture quality possible from encoding and is it possible to keep the original audio streams DTS etc or will they need to be MP3 or something?

One last thing! Is handbrake still the best?

Lartyconshayo · 13 Sep 2017 at 00:02

Mkv seems to be all the rage these days. Not sure about ripping software though.

VincentHanna · 13 Sep 2017 at 00:32

X265 is the best if space is an issue.

Puzzled · 13 Sep 2017 at 23:06

VincentHanna said:
X265 is the best if space is an issue.

And you have the equipment to play it natively.

I'm still sticking with x264 for now, not too fussed about storage space and a 15GB - 20GB rip seems the same as a bluray to me (keeping the HD audio streams as well).

x265 seems to come in to its own with keeping the quality at lower file sizes, just needs a bit more time for players to catch up (I know plex can transcode but just seems like wasted processing power).

varkanoid · 13 Sep 2017 at 23:42

Lartyconshayo said:
Mkv seems to be all the rage these days. Not sure about ripping software though.

believe thats a container not a codec like x265. Handbrake always seems very buggy to me. I dont have one favourite but I use DVD Catalyst mostly and purchased the full version a while back as it was worth a tenner and did what I wanted at the time.