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Old 8th January 2019, 15:00   #28  |  Link
Sharc
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Why don't you try yourself an tell us whether you see a difference? Cut out a snippet of say 1 minute duration from your source and try your settings and Apple playback scenarios.
Why are you so much worried about quality when you won't see a difference at these high bitrates of about 17Mbps as you suggest?

Your first example (2-pass encode) is blu-ray compliant and time consuming. Blu-ray compliance does not by itself mean that it is the best possible quality. It puts some constrains on certain parameters to ensure that the video stream complies with the blu-ray standard. I don't know whether your Apple devices require blu-ray compliant video streams or not.

Your second example is a 1-pass ABR encode. The stream will not be blu-ray compliant. The quality will be excellent as well though. Just try.

What are you going to do with the audio and subtitles b.t.w.?

Finally, why dont you simply throw your .mkv sources to HANDBRAKE and let it do the job? It has even a number of Apple presets for MP4.
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