Using this method I have been able to shrink each of the episodes from about 6GB in size down to about 1.3 to 1.5GB in size, retaining the full 1080p resolution and DTS sound track. Press the “Start” button and your encoding session will begin. Press the “Show Queue” button to see all your files waiting to be encodedġ7. If you are doing a batch of files, open the File Menu and select “Add All Titles To Queue”ġ6. If you are only doing one file, just press the “Start” button and Handbrake will start encoding. Click the “Chapters” tab and make sure “Create Chapter Markers” is un-checked.ġ5. Click the “Subtitles” tab and select noneġ4. Just select the Dolby Digital or DTS sound track from the drop down window, and choose “Auto Passthru”ġ3. I figure you are converting a Blu Ray, so you might as well have the best sound quality as well. But, if regular 2 channel Stereo is ok for you, you can configure that in this area if you want. I am a real Audiofile, I love the Dolby Digital and DTS 5-7 channel audio tracks in movies, so I select “Auto PassThru”. Now you can close out the Picture Settings window and select the “Audio” tab in the main window. Whilst in the picture settings window, click “Filters” and change all of your settings to look like these as wellġ2. Change all of your settings look like thisġ1. Now click the “Picture Settings” button in the top right side of the window.Ī new window will open. Like I said, run it while you are sleeping.ġ0. Unfortunately it is a trade off for speed vs quality. Trust me, it takes a while, but the quality is far superior, and usually yields a smaller file size. For the encoder options, slide the preset slider to Very Slow. Check Constant Quality and adjust the slider until the RF number goes to 25ĥ. The frame rate should be “Same as Source” and Constant Framerate should be selected.Ĥ. Make sure the video codec is H.264 (x264)ģ. Now it’s time to make some adjustments to the settings.Īll of your settings should look like the above screen grab – Click it to enlarge.Ģ. Handbrake will import them all, but you will only see the first one. Once you have ripped your Disks to MKV files with Make MKV, Open Handbrake (You can download the latest version for free HERE) then press the source button and select the file you want to convert, or if you want to do a batch of files, select the folder that contains all of your ripped MKV’s. PLEASE NOTE – This method will produce very nice quality 1080p videos, but may take 2 hours or more to process each hour of video, so my advice is to let run whilst you are sleeping each night. But if you are like me, and just want to reduce your episodes to a more manageable size, whilst retaining most of the quality, here’s how to do it. Factors like TV size, Viewing distance, hardware, drive space restrictions and a plethora of other concerns are all valid. It is a topic a lot of people are very passionate about. I set about trying to reduce the sizes and found thousands of different ideas and methods. Once I had ripped the episodes, each file was almost 6GB in file size. There are plenty of tutorials out there that show you how to do this, so I am not going to cover that here. In order to watch the show I paid $80 for – I was forced to rip the discs to my hard drive. Can you imagine how many bad discs there must be around the world? Again, they drive us to action that they deem illegal. I cant believe the movie studios get away with it. To cut a long story short, EVERY one of the 8 discs in the set crashes about halfway through, and the last 2 episodes on each disc will not play at all. I got through Episode 1 and 2 ok, but at episode 3 the old DVD issues appeared. I purchased all of the Marvel Movies, Agents Of Shield, Alcatraz, and I had been hearing a lot about Arrow, so I purchased a Season 1 and Season 2 box set for $80 AUD. I did my research, and found a player that will play all regions (Regional Encoding – one of the stupidist restrictions in the history of technology), and made a somewhat hefty investment in starting a Blu Ray collection. ![]() Blu Ray has been around for a while now, and it started to feel like time to try again with this new technology. In my experience, the damn things were so unwatchable that I swore I would never buy another one again. You start watching them, get relaxed and into the story, and when you least expect it they skip or freeze. My Rant – (If your not interested in my rant, scroll down to where it says “Lets Get Started”)Ĭirca 2000 I got really pissed off at DVD’s. **NOTE** – These settings are for Blu Ray Video ONLY – If you want to convert DVD Video see the tutorial HERE. ![]() This is a simple easy guide on how to make the best encodes with the smallest file size in Handbrake without having to know or understand all of the settings. ![]() THERE IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE FOR 2023!
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