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Originally Posted by mariush
My advice would be to seriously analyze how much time disk space is really worth to you.
We're at the point where you can buy a 8 TB (~ 7250 GiB in real disk space) for $150 ... that's 0.02$ per GB.
At 3 mbps, you're looking at ~ 22 MB per minute or 1.4 GB per hour ...
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I run an ITX media server, and I don't have a lot of room for expandability. But I recently upgraded it to a 3900X, so I am finally in a position to throw a lot of CPU power at H.265 encoding.
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Originally Posted by mariush
If you're gonna spend maybe 2-3 hours per one hour of encoding you should at least use a higher bitrate, maybe something like 8-10mbps VBR for 1080p and 4-8 mbps VBR for 720p ... if you end up with around 4-6 GB for a 2h movie, you're still looking at less than 0.1$ in disk space cost.
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Most of the time the settings I cited in the original post work pretty well for me. But I've seen examples where I'm clearly beaten in quality to file size. I want to know how to improve. Actually, part of that is how to leverage the 3900X, because I started three instances of Handbrake doing 360p and 480p encodes and the CPU is not fully utilized. Maybe should be its own post.
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Originally Posted by mariush
also hmm.. you joined nov 2016 but today's your first post?
ps... also checked the other forum post you mentioned.. hope you realized he used a cartoon for tests... real motion video, bluray with grain etc will behave differently.. make sure you understand why he uses some settings there.
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Yes, I was going to ask then what settings I should use for my goals, but I feared I hadn't done enough of my own research and held off, then forgot all about it.
I think the Big Buck Bunny movie sample he used is something that you would tune for Film if using H.264 rather than Animation. But I admit I don't know why he went with the particular settings he chose. It was just presented as "true placebo" mode for H.265 and I seized on it.