Coma

If you visit this forum regularly or you've been recommended Handbrake by anyone, you probably know I've been preaching against it. It turns out Handbrake wasn't dead after all, only there weren't any signs of this anywhere on their main page. Foolish, if you ask me, but whatever.

Handbrake does seem to be an OK piece of software, and now that you can get a version of Handbrake that doesn't use software from last year, why not?

But never, ever download from their main page. Always get the latest snapshot from the forum.

http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12842

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tubesaddict

Why would you not get the stable version from the site and instead get the unstable version from the forum? I get that it is new, but that doesn't necessarily mean better.

Coma

It does. Well, even if it might have a bug here or there, the point is that what does the encoding is x264, so you shouldn't worry.

Handbrake is worthless if it's not using a recent version of x264 anyway, so it's that or nothing.

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low strife

The main point of upgrading the handbrake version is to upgrade to a more recent version of x264. If you encode a video with two different versions (say two years apart), on "the same settings" (take that lightly, as things will change over 2 years), then the quality will be different due to the tweaks and whatnot they've done.

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Coma

New is always better with open source software. Almost nobody uses stable versions - the newer versions hardly ever have any real bugs.

At least with x264, changes are tested rigorously before being committed to GIT.

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LiNERROR

multi-threaded performance is great too... love the batch encode...

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Coma

x264 today is about 30% faster than x264 in that old version of Handbrake. And yes, back then it would use a server's 16 cores at 100%, too.

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low strife

I'd assume that would go like no other, since you have a wicked fast setup (TEN drive Raid6 + 4.5Ghz i7....). That'd encode easily twice as fast as my sigrig (which sadly still sits stock).

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Coma

Like RAID would matter

By the way low strife, did that Perl script work out for you?

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low strife

Depending on the size of the source footage & encoding speed, it might.

I never had a chance to try it out. I was only in school for one day last week (end of the quarter), and testing the script & whatnot wasn't at the top of my list that day.

I should be able to give it a whirl next week.

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