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Video Codecs

 

  • H.264 (x264): For MPEG-4 part 10, also known as H.264/AVC.

    • This is HandBrakes default encoder. It provides excellent performance, filesizes and quality.

    • It is widely supported by players and mobile devices.

  • H.264 (Intel QuickSync): For MPEG-4 part 10, also known as H.264/AVC.

    • Available on Intel processors with Intel HD Graphics.

    • QuickSync is a hardware based H.264 encoder so is very fast, with significantly lower CPU usage than x264.

    • Intel Haswell or newer CPU's are recommended as these offer the best results in terms of Quality and Filesize.

    • You can typically expect larger (but usually not significantly larger) file sizes and slightly lower quality to an equivilent x264 encode. This is a trade off that is fine for most.

  • H.265 (x265): Also known as HEVC

    • This is the next generation of encoder that offers even higher quality encodes and better filesizes over H.264

    • Note, encoding to H.265 is a significantly more complicated process, so it is expected to be slower than HandBrake's H.264 encoders.

    • Playback support is rather limited at the moment, particularly with mobile devices but this should improve drastically throughout 2015/16

  • MPEG-4 (ffmpeg): HandBrake offers FFmpeg's MPEG-4 part 2 encoder for fast, low quality encoding.

    • Better support from older devices such as DVD players and cheap "MP4 Players"

    • Lower quality than the H.264 encode option but typically faster encodes.

  • MPEG-2 (ffmpeg): HandBrake offers FFmpeg's MPEG-2 part 2 encoder for fast, low quality encoding.

    • Fast Encoding, but requires larger files than MPEG-4 for the same quality level. Useful for testing but not much else.

  • VP8 (Libvpx):

    • A free and open video codec which offers significant improvements over Theora.

  • VP3 (Theora): HandBrake can also encode Theora video. Theora video with Vorbis audio in the Matroska container represents a truly free option for multimedia encoding.

    • However, Theora has yet to reach maturity when measured by quality at a given bitrate.