How to Shrink a Bluray Rip while Preserving the Quality using Handbrake
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- In this tutorial I show how to shrink a blu-ray rip while preserving most of the quality. You can expect the final shrunk file to be upwards of 1/4th of the original file size. You can download the Handbrake Bluray Shrink Template from my google drive. drive.google.com/file/d/1GX-R...
Free download here handbrake.fr/
00:00 - Beginning/Lots of Blabbing
04:01 - Showing Original Rip File Size
05:10 - Handbrake Summary Tab, Video Format Selection
06:15 - Handbrake Video Tab Settings
14:19 - Handbrake Audio Tab Settings
18:18 - Handbrake Subtitles Tab Settings
20:33 - Almost Forgot, Video Tab Quality Preset Slider Settings
23:22 - Final Shrunk Video File Size
25:05 - Side by Side Video Comparison between Original & Shrunk
25:14 - Final Thoughts
Wow thank you for actually explaining the settings and not just telling us what to select. Very informative for someone like me who’s new to all this mkv / handbrake stuff backing up my media collection. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Nice guide! You also sound very friendly :D
Thank you!!!
I find BD Rebuilder to be a good solution too. Not only does it compress to BD25, BD9 and BD5; but it also has options to compress to mkv and mp4, even has device-specific options built in. All the hard work is already done if you select "Automatic Quality." You can adjust the options in there if you want to though. Just find it a bit easier to use vs Handbrake/Vidcoder, especially if you do not know which options to select and how to tune things.
thanks!!! i had forgotten about bd rebuilder!!!
2,000 movie collection just went from not trying it to definitely trying this
Good luck! That'll take a LOOONGG time lol
@@RDsRCReviews 1 a day and ill be done in 5 years lol
If you're going to rip and compress 2000 discs, my advice is first off buy a couple of new BD drives so they rip faster. But also - use hardware accelerated encoding or a faster set of x264 options. I find CRF22 on the "Very Fast" option usually does pretty well and I am happy with the file sizes.
I love handbrake I use it with wonderfox to compress alot of my videos
It is great! How are you Clay? I assume your FB account got shutdown?
@@RDsRCReviews My old one did and after a while i finally had to go legit and set up one they would shut off like the rest so I did that a couple days ago
I’m looking to shrink and burn the end file to a Blu-ray Disc using this software.How do you shrink it to a Bd25 ? What are the best settings ? Thanks in advance
You'll need to use bluray authoring software to create the correct folders and files to play on a blueray player. I used to use Nero for that but most people have moved away from physical media. You would be much better off using Plex and just stream the files to your devices. The shrinking of the files is mostly for saving disk space on your Plex Media Server.
I have 2 questions. I'm on Windows so where do I put the .json file for your template and will this work on a m2ts file or do I have to convert to mkv first
Thanks!
I believe you do you import in the settings and you can import my template. It should work with any file that Handbrake will open but you may need to tweak the settings especially for the audio tracks
@@RDsRCReviews Thanks. I'm encoding a 34 gig blue ray now. I made it an mkv with mkvtoolnix as that does 1:1 conversion and resulting file looks superb. recode in handbreak is going to take 22 hours. haha...thanks so much for the lesson. and yes i imported your preset in settings
@@amber438 you're welcome. I have this same tutorial and a few others on my other channel "Plex 'N Tech" if you want to search and subscribe to that channel. Handbrake also only outputs mkv and MP4 so you didn't need to use that app though it won't hurt anything either. You can try adjusting the quality to a faster setting if 22 hours is too long though that will require you to restart it. Also, if you have a GPU that is supported such as an Nvidia, AMD or a relatively new Intel CPU with integrated graphics that supports QuickSync then you can select that corresponding codec in the drop down box. It will be way way faster to just use GPU hardware acceleration and you won't likely see a quality difference though the end file will be a bit larger in file size. This tutorial is a bit dated though. You may be better off using your GPU H.265 as the encoder since it'll give you the very best quality and the smallest file size. When I made this tutorial H.264 was still the standard since it was the most compatible with devices but now H.265 should playback fine on almost any device and if you are using Plex then if a device can't accept H.265 direct stream then Plex will transcode it to H.264 on the fly.
@@RDsRCReviews So i woke up and handbreak was finished but the file size did not change at all. I used the same setting you did. What do you think I did wrong?
@@amber438Try using a hardware encoder.
My preference is H.265 10 Bit encoding. 265 gives smaller files than 264 for the same quality. 10Bit gives slightly better results on noise and less posterization (blockiness). NVEnc and QVT (Intel) give better quality than Apple M1 or AMD for the same file size but all give acceptable results.
Quality settings are not the same between encoders, so RF=22 using the CPU does not give the same results as RF=22 for the NVEnc. You have to test for your acceptability of quality vs. files size on your own hardware. Even going up or down one step has a big effect on the files size while having a relatively small effect on perceived quality.
For me my testing shows for a good files size 265 10Bit for 1080p movies and might be a good starting point.
CPU RF=22 very good results 15-20 fps
NVenc RF = 27 good results 70fps (old hardware)
QVT (Intel) CQ =32 OR CQ=22 for older CPUs good results. 130 fps (use quality setting)
M1 (Apple Silicon) CQ=60 OK quality - lose more detail than the above. 200fps (use quality setting)
AMD RF=21 OK quality - lose more detail than the above. 190fps (use quality setting)
All these conversions give about the same files size. All give acceptable results are are not 'archive' quality. Anyone can see the quality difference when viewing side by side screen captures, but when actually watching a movie on a large screen these are more than good enough for most people.
Speed will depend on your hardware. My NVIDIA encoder is quite old and under-powered in a Surface device, for example. Intel results are pretty good and almost every modern laptop with an Intel CPU should be able to use the HW encoder. Even my Surface Pro X ARM HW encoder gave good results at a high frame rate. If you are NetFlix or uploading videos to CZcams, CPU encoding is probably worth it, but not for casual watching in my opinion.
don't know if it true but I feel like the original video already look worse before even encode it. you should play the video using potplayer instead of VLC.
I'm on Linux. I'm not sure potplayer is available for Linux. I've used it on Windows years ago. Also keep in mind I'm using a screen recorder which affected the quality of what you see on CZcams. Then add to it CZcams's compression.
clickbait title...i still haven't seen a use of handbrake preserving REALLY the original quality of the videos!!!
Obviously it isn't possible to lower the bitrate a lot and completely preserve the quality but you can come close. I wasn't sure how else to title this video but it isn't clickbait
@@RDsRCReviews ok, thanks!!!