Handbrake Crashes

[WhiteHawk77]

Hey there, I'm trying to convert bluray rips for streaming from a NAS and Handbrake either BSOD's my PC on the normal build or crashes itself if I try a nightly build.

Now It crashed my PC before, but this is a new motherboard and RAM and new drivers and as everything else seems to be fine it seems that Handbrake is just not stable on Windows 10 at least, so anyone know how to fix this or an alternative with options to pick the audio stream and forced only subtitles and good quality control.

Thanks.

 

[WhiteHawk77]

Hey guys, thanks for the info, looks like it was an unstable OC. or should that be

I went back to default speed and it did a full movie conversion, I then put it back to 4.5Ghz and also set the voltage back to 1.30 like I had it originally when I set the OC and it did the same movie again just fine so I guess 1.25 volts isn't enough for Handbrake, for everything else including Aida64 but not that, typical.

Anyway, anyone got any tips for Handbrake as I'm not a 100 percent happy with the results yet, I tried Big Hero 6 as a test as it's a CGI movie I could perhaps more easily see the quality differences between settings. The one I just did still looked grainy at 5GB and I want to keep the file size down to between 4-8GB roughly. The settings were:

High Profile MP4
Anamorphic: Strict
H.264
Encoder Tune: Film
Encoder Preset: VerySlow
Quality: 18
Audio: DTS-HD Master converted to AAC bitrate 256 Stereo
Subtitles: Forced only Burn in

Thanks for any help, as for the OC I'll drop the voltage bit by bit again and test with this instead of Aida64.

 

[WhiteHawk77]

"Encoder Tune: Film" will prioritise grain (it means "photographic film", not "movie"), so unless the video you're converting was shot on film and you particularly want to preserve the film texture, set this to default. It should NEVER be set this way for animated films (they have no grain!).

You should probably also set a Denoise Filter if you haven't already, even if it's not a noisy source, as it really helps the compression ratio. Usually the "light" setting is fine.

Other than that, reduce the CQ parameter until you're happy. Although 20 is usually low enough and 18 is quite extreme already.

Edit: FYI, the preset (e.g. VerySlow) improves compression (reduces file size) but doesn't affect quality.
Also you could try H.265, it has 2x the efficiency.

Thanks for the info, only reason I used the film option is that I came across that online but I think I'll leave it off, just did one without and it's a bit better with a 2.9GB file size with CQ at 20, think I'm on the right track now.

 

[WhiteHawk77]

This is why overclocking stress tests are utterly useless. Said this many many times.

When someone says I have my i7 overclocked to 4.8ghz 24/7 stable I always have a little chuckle.

Have a nights worth of video encoding then come back to us with your claims of stability

OP, reset bios to defaults and try again

Not sure why people are missing my other post but I already mentioned that I have it back at 1.30 volts on 4.5Ghz and its stable, done several full movies now fine, will drop volts 0.01 at a time and test again with Handbrake.