Handbrake Settings.

arc@css · 20 Feb 2015 at 21:06

Will a mod please move this to its rightful sub-forum, Windows & Other Software. Thanks.

If any experienced users are able to improve on my current settings, then I would be grateful. I don't know much about this, as I have only recently started getting my feet wet. What would you improve / change?

arc@css · 20 Feb 2015 at 22:09

stopper said:
I personaly would use the "Avg bitrate" setting instead of "constant quality", it gives you much more choice on quality/size, for a decent quality movie I wouldn't put it any lower than 2500 for high quality any thing between 4000 and 6000 is good, and always use 2 pass encoding.
Next I would change the x264 preset to slow or slower.
And that's about it for me.

Thanks for 'stopping' by. Trying this out now.

arc@css · 20 Feb 2015 at 22:09

SkodaMart said:
I like one or two clicks.
Ensure the rear wheels turn freely if set this tight however.

arc@css · 28 Feb 2015 at 19:36

A few points :

I've tried using the following to reduce / remove 'pixelation' on videos.

* using constant quality
* using avg bitrate / 2 pass encoding
* encoding at slow / slower speeds
* select advanced tab - then increasing the number of reference frames

None of this seems to have helped much, if at all.

What determines the maximum bitrate that you can select in avg bitrate? I'm assuming the obvious here, but I don't know for sure.

arc@css · 28 Feb 2015 at 23:27

stopper said:
There is no maximum, you can take it as high as you want. Bluray is encoded at around 8000 iirc.
If you are having pixelation problems with a rate that high, I can only imagine the source file is garbage.
What are you trying to encode? as in, where is the source from.

I'm trying to encode a game play video after having recorded with afterburner (container format is AVI). After encoding with handbrake, the mp4 file created is what I upload to youtube.

arc@css · 1 Mar 2015 at 11:54

Thanks, Blackbadger.

My internet speed is now 76/19, well, potentially anyway.

I'll consider uploading overnight (unlimited internet).

I do intend to move from afterburner soon to something like Dxtory, Mirillis or OBS, though the latter looks the more complicated to set up. Unfortunately, I can't use ShadowPlay, as I don't have an nVidia card though I will be getting one in the not too terribly distant future. I would try using Raptr, though for some reason I can't login, but anyway that's a problem for me to solve.

Interestingly, I stumbled across this yesterday. I'll post a link, along with a few of my settings - (which weren't the original ones I was using) :

http://l2citadel.com/forums/topic/1...msi-afterburner-and-x264-encoding-on-the-fly/

As it turned out, it didn't seem to make enough, if any difference, though no doubt there are other settings that I haven't tried yet.

I've just tried to upload a video to youtube, but it wouldn't allow me to do so. I accidentally didn't select the right afterburner options correctly, so consquently the file size was quite big (173gb). I meant to use MJGP compression, but instead I made an error and chose uncompressed.

arc@css · 20 Jun 2015 at 01:42

What's better for image quality, AVI or MKV?

arc@css · 20 Jun 2015 at 11:47

Drizmod said:
I use an older version of Handbrake which gave you a filesize option. I would use Normal Profile, 2 -pass encoding and selecting fileseize. For an 1 hour 30 min video I set the filesize as 2GB which gave me a great quality video (1080p video)

EDIT: What GPU are you using? What resolution are you gaming at?

Actually, I haven't used handbrake for a little while. I just thought I'd use my old thread rather than create a new one. Out of interest, what version are you using?

My graphics card is a 7970, and the resolution I use is 1200p.

The other issue I'm having is that when recording Doom 3 + Absolute HD mod installed, no audio is being picked up. All other games are fine.

As to my original question, I've read that MKV is better than AVI, though I wanted to check that out with some of the more experienced people on here. The thing is, if MKV is worth 'going for', then I would need to find a way for Windows Movie Maker to be able to read it.

arc@css · 20 Jun 2015 at 13:32

I'm currently using Windows Movie Maker, which unfortunately doesn't play ball with MKV, it seems.

I'm quite happy with AVI, though if I can improve quality then all well and good.

arc@css · 20 Jun 2015 at 13:57

Anyone got an idea what might be causing this?

The first video was recorded with Fraps (free version). The audio plays fine.

The second was recorded with Afterburner, but for the life of me I can't get any audio.