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So the last few months I have been playing with many of my settings for non-uhd and uhd discs. I found that by bumping my handbrake settings for non-uhd Blu-ray I got a very noticeable quality bump. The negative of that is the files are of course significantly larger so I tend to only use the higher settings for my favorites or movies that are just pretty in general. I went from an average bitrate of 6k to 12k. 12k results in about a 20mb bitrate file causing the files to be around 15GB or so.
I tried applying some of this experience to UHD with handbrake but handbrake seems to handle UHD funny and I have read some posts out on the net stating not to use handbrake for UHD because it does not handle it properly. I did make an attempt using a 24k average bitrate and while it seemed to have worked (quality seemed to be OK) but it was taking forever as in the time to encode was basically just not changing even though I was running it through my GPU.
So to this point for UHD I have been using CloneBD to copy over to MKV lossless. I figure I am after the quality so why spend a ton of time trying to compress it only to lose quality. But the storage needs are eating me up left and right.
So my question is, is anyone successfully reencoding UHD and saving space but keeping the quality? Right now it seems the time needed to do it and the little space I would save (keeping the quality loss in mind) is not worth it. But that's just from what I know now so I am trying to learn more.
Thanks.
I tried applying some of this experience to UHD with handbrake but handbrake seems to handle UHD funny and I have read some posts out on the net stating not to use handbrake for UHD because it does not handle it properly. I did make an attempt using a 24k average bitrate and while it seemed to have worked (quality seemed to be OK) but it was taking forever as in the time to encode was basically just not changing even though I was running it through my GPU.
So to this point for UHD I have been using CloneBD to copy over to MKV lossless. I figure I am after the quality so why spend a ton of time trying to compress it only to lose quality. But the storage needs are eating me up left and right.
So my question is, is anyone successfully reencoding UHD and saving space but keeping the quality? Right now it seems the time needed to do it and the little space I would save (keeping the quality loss in mind) is not worth it. But that's just from what I know now so I am trying to learn more.
Thanks.