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---
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Type: article
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State: [ obsolete ]
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Title: Video Codecs
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Project: HandBrake
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Project_URL: https://handbrake.fr/
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Project_Version: 1.2.0
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Language: English
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Language_Code: en
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Authors: [ Scott (s55) ]
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Copyright: 2022 HandBrake Team
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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License_Abbr: CC BY-SA 4.0
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License_URL: https://handbrake.fr/docs/license.html
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---
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Video Codecs
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============
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- H.264 (x264): For MPEG-4 part 10, also known as H.264/AVC.
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- This is HandBrakes default encoder. It provides excellent performance,
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filesizes and quality.
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- It is widely supported by players and mobile devices.
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- H.264 (Intel QuickSync): For MPEG-4 part 10, also known as H.264/AVC.
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- Available on Intel processors with Intel HD Graphics.
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- QuickSync is a hardware based H.264 encoder so is very fast, with
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significantly lower CPU usage than x264.
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- Intel Haswell or newer CPU's are recommended as these offer the best
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results in terms of Quality and Filesize.
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- You can typically expect larger (but usually not significantly larger)
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file sizes and slightly lower quality to an equivilent x264 encode. This
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is a trade off that is fine for most.
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- H.265 (x265): Also known as HEVC
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- This is the next generation of encoder that offers even higher quality
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encodes and better filesizes over H.264
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- Note, encoding to H.265 is a significantly more complicated process, so
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it is expected to be slower than HandBrake's H.264 encoders.
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- Playback support is rather limited at the moment, particularly with
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mobile devices but this should improve drastically throughout 2015/16
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- MPEG-4 (ffmpeg): HandBrake offers FFmpeg's MPEG-4 part 2 encoder for fast,
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low quality encoding.
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- Better support from older devices such as DVD players and cheap "MP4
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Players"
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- Lower quality than the H.264 encode option but typically faster encodes.
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- MPEG-2 (ffmpeg): HandBrake offers FFmpeg's MPEG-2 part 2 encoder for fast,
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low quality encoding.
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- Fast Encoding, but requires larger files than MPEG-4 for the same
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quality level. Useful for testing but not much else.
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- VP8 (Libvpx):
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- A free and open video codec which offers significant improvements over
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Theora.
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- VP3 (Theora): HandBrake can also encode Theora video. Theora video with
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Vorbis audio in the Matroska container represents a truly free option for
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multimedia encoding.
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- However, Theora has yet to reach maturity when measured by quality at a
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given bitrate.
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