Hi,
I've been ripping blu-rays up until recently with all the commercial (crap) packages, xilisoft and the like. They generally produced decent quality 4ish gig files.
Then I started using handbrake on the "normal" and "high profile" settings and my encodes looked a lot better, but were around 10gigs, which doesn't work when streaming to a cheap chinese hdmi media player box, from a network drive.
For a few blu-ray movies I own, I downloaded a copy from an encoding team called "YIFY", and all their movies seem to be around 2gb or less, and were of similar quality to my 10gb encodes - or at least as far as my eyes could discern.
I'm not looking for the perfect encoding settings - it probably varies by movie, but I'm just looking for a rough idea of how to scale down my file size in the same way these encoders do.
On the new handbrake nightlies they've included "x264 options", where you can slow down the speed of the conversion to increase compression efficiency - I've tried this and it does have a difference, but not a massive difference.
Should I be changing the RF Value?
I've noticed some of my encodes have an overall bit rate of around 10mbps, whereas some of the equivalent YIFY ones are around 2mbps (or 2000kbps). Is this achieved through the RF Value, or manually setting bitrate, or something else?
Many thanks.
I've been ripping blu-rays up until recently with all the commercial (crap) packages, xilisoft and the like. They generally produced decent quality 4ish gig files.
Then I started using handbrake on the "normal" and "high profile" settings and my encodes looked a lot better, but were around 10gigs, which doesn't work when streaming to a cheap chinese hdmi media player box, from a network drive.
For a few blu-ray movies I own, I downloaded a copy from an encoding team called "YIFY", and all their movies seem to be around 2gb or less, and were of similar quality to my 10gb encodes - or at least as far as my eyes could discern.
I'm not looking for the perfect encoding settings - it probably varies by movie, but I'm just looking for a rough idea of how to scale down my file size in the same way these encoders do.
On the new handbrake nightlies they've included "x264 options", where you can slow down the speed of the conversion to increase compression efficiency - I've tried this and it does have a difference, but not a massive difference.
Should I be changing the RF Value?
I've noticed some of my encodes have an overall bit rate of around 10mbps, whereas some of the equivalent YIFY ones are around 2mbps (or 2000kbps). Is this achieved through the RF Value, or manually setting bitrate, or something else?
Many thanks.