Questions tagged [handbrake]
HandBrake is an open source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
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Handbrake: Is it useful to use Fast 480p30 for 480 mkv videos, or can I stick with Fast 1080p30?
I'm fairly new to using Handbrake, and the numerous configurations are a bit confusing.
I've looked in the documentation and on the forums, and I've done some tests myself, and noticed that with Fast ...
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Roku Media Player app shows title as "Stereo"
When converting videos using handbrake, and then playing them with Roku Media Player app, the title shows as either Stereo or Surround, even though the filename appears as the correct title of the ...
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Why is Handbrake forcing down the frame size of my video?
Summary: I have an old movie that I downloaded from YouTube some years ago, saved as an flv. I want to extract a 13-minute clip from it. To do that, I used ffmpeg to convert it to mp4 so I could load ...
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Why does Handbrake on Mac have subtitle options not available on Windows, and what do they do?
The most recent version of Handbrake (1.7.3) has two subtitle burn-in options on Mac that are missing on Windows: "DVD Subtitles" and "Blu-ray Subtitles". The screenshots in the ...
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Transmission and available disk space
I used Transmission to get a file which was part of a set of large files. Before opening the torrent, I checked the disk space :
df -h /dev/sda5
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/...
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Copying files makes Handbrake faster on a mac?
I'm seeing something extremely odd.
Handbrake on my mac is being throttled to ≈60% CPU usage. I've been trying to figure out why for a while with no luck.
Now for the odd part --
When I'm actively ...
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ffmpeg printing unknown glyph between characters on utf-8 subtitle
FFmpeg is printing unknown glyphs between some two characters but the weird thing is it's not replacing a character that doesn't exist in the font, it's just printing a new unknown glygh and I can't ...
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Handbrake - automatically keep aspect ratio when downscaling?
How can I in Handbrake 1.6 automatically keep the aspect ratio when downscaling a clip?
I found this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwiVjJwVawo and as you can see there used to be a ...
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HandbrakeCLI auto conversion
I need to have this script read for files in C:/unc but then output the converted file in C:/enc
for /R C:\unc %%F in (*.mkv) do (
"C:\Program Files\HandBrake\HandBrakeCLI.exe" --preset-...
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Translate Handbrake preset into FFMPEG preset
Is there a good way to translate the following Handbrake preset code into a FFMPEG preset? I've not found any reliable sources for how to configure the preset for FFMPEG.
{ "PresetList": [ { ...
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Convert 16:9 video to 9:16 with letterbox in Handbrake
I have a video in 16:9 format that I will be uploading to Instagram live via onestream.live that is getting cropped by Instagram because it's in horizontal format, not vertical.
How can I use ...
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Ffmpeg producing worse result than Handbrake using x265 with identical settings
I'm trying to replicate Handbrake settings with ffmpeg, because I'd like to add some metadata and some other things with ffmpeg that Handbrake can not do.
What I've done seems to be close, the ...
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How to use HandbrakeCLI GPU encoding?
I tried
HandBrakeCLI -i file1.mkv -o output.mp4 -e nvenc_h264 --encopts="gpu=1"
where gpu=1 means my nVidia 3070. It'd stop about 2 seconds after it prints:
03:11:13 encavcodecInit: H.265 (...
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Handbrake CPU usage goes to 100% when I plug in charger
My laptop specs: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz 3.11 GHz + Iris Xe Graphics + 8GB RAM + 512GB NVMe SSD
Normal cpu usage for handbrake stays between 20-30 % of cpu when on battery. But ...
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Simplify scritps in ffmpeg
This is my first post, so apologie in advance.
I normally use HandBrake to encode to 265 all my files, but the problem is not passthrough for subs, those change to ssa (from srt). This format is a ...
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