HandBrake Settings Tutorial | INSANE VIDEO COMPRESSION AT THE BEST QUALITY | H265 HEVC vs H264 AVC
1,140Shogoz here! Here’s a quick and easy guide about the best way to use HandBrake to compress videos. This tutorial shows you how to get the best quality compression settings in HandBrake and HandBrake Nightly builds. This video also features comparisons between the h265 (HEVC) and h264 (AVC) codec. Without ‘Reactions’, this tutorial wouldn’t have been possible as he is the one who taught me how to do this. Thank you, Reactions!
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Handbrake's Video Encoders available are H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8, VP9 and Theora. Audio Encoders available include AAC, HE-AAC, MP3, VORBIS, AC3, FLAC 16 and 24bit (FFmpeg). HandBrake is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It uses third-party libraries such as Libav, libvpx, and x265.
Handbrake Features:
Built-in Device Presets
Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
Supported Input Sources:
Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Input:
DVD-Video from disc or ISO image
Matroska (MKV)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4)
MPEG Transport Stream (TS)
BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS)
Output
Container formats
MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4)
iTunes Video (M4V)
Matroska (MKV)
Video formats
H.264 using x264 and Intel Quick Sync Video
H.265/HEVC using x265 and Intel Quick Sync Video
MPEG-4 ASP using libav
MPEG-2 using libav
Theora using libtheora
VP8 and VP9 using libvpx
Audio formats:
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) using libav
AC-3
FLAC 16-bit and 24-bit
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (MP3)
Opus
Vorbis
Pass-through for AAC, AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, E-AC-3, FLAC, MP3, and TrueHD
Even more features:
Title / chapter and range selection
Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
Chapter Markers
Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
Support for VFR and CFR
Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
Live Static and Video Preview
General Troubleshooting:
Troubleshooting common issues HandBrake for Linux Cannot find HandBrake executable. The HandBrake graphical interface executable is ghb. Simply launch your terminal application and type ghb followed by the return key.
General troubleshooting
Try each of the following steps until HandBrake is working again.
Make sure you have official HandBrake and not a broken third-party build; see Where to get HandBrake
Restart your computer
Delete your HandBrake configuration data and presets (replace username with your own)
/home/username/.config/ghb
Install/reinstall the latest version of HandBrake; see Downloading and installing HandBrake
If the above does not solve your issue, someone may be able to help via HandBrake’s Community support channels.
HandBrake for Mac
HandBrake does not launch
HandBrake versions prior to 1.1.0 and nightly builds are not code signed using an Apple Developer Certificate. By default, Gatekeeper prevents unsigned applications from running on your Mac.
General troubleshooting
Try each of the following steps until HandBrake is working again.
Restart your computer
Delete your HandBrake configuration data and presets (replace username with your own)
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/HandBrake
Install/reinstall the latest version of HandBrake; see Downloading and installing HandBrake
If the above does not solve your issue, someone may be able to help via HandBrake’s Community support channels.
HandBrake for Windows
Downloading Microsoft .NET Framework
Windows 10 already contains Microsoft .NET Framework. Updates are available for Windows 7 and 8.1 via Windows Update.
Additionally, you may download one of the following Microsoft .NET Framework standalone installers.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 for Windows Vista SP2
General troubleshooting
Try each of the following steps until HandBrake is working again.
Restart your computer
Install the latest version of Microsoft .NET Framework available for your Windows version
Delete your HandBrake configuration data and presets (replace username with your own)