@lisamelton The #Handbrake gui was *super* frustrating for me--I would open a directory of TV episode MKVs as a source, then set up the audio & subtitle options I want & transcode one episode. I would check the output--were there subtitles? Always yes. Then I added the rest of the eps to the queue & set it to work.

Invariably the rest of the eps had no subtitles. Totally maddening.

No doubt I'm doing something wrong there, but this way I can just do everything & be sure the same args are passed every time. 🤞

Could not get the excellent @lisamelton's `transcode-video.rb` to work on my machine, because flatpak. My ruby skills are too rusty to enable me to adapt it, but it did spit out a proper set of HandBrakeCLI args for me, so I pasted those that into this:

https://gist.github.com/rpardee/42ab258ec0d25248af45eec92519a212

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to go through all my ripped TV shows...

#flatpak #HandBrake #powershell

@vkc nice video. Another thing that brothers me about streaming is ownership. Like you i buy dvd's in thriftstores, rip them with #MakeMkv convert them with #Handbrake and play the movies on the device of my choice. It's a bit cumbersome, but it's mine.

So I have hundreds of videos of ~1 minute recorded from my phone ~10 years ago, and they generally don’t have that great compression, nor they are stored in a modern and advanced video format.

For archiving purposes, I want to take advantage of my workstation’s mighty GPU to process them so that the quality is approximately the same, but the file size would be strongly reduced.

Nevertheless, compressing videos is terribly hard, and way more complex than compressing pictures, so I wouldn’t really know how to do this, what format to use, what codec, what bitrate, what parameters to keep an eye on, etc.

I don’t care if the compression takes a lot of time, I just want smaller but good looking videos.

Any tips? (Links to guides and tutorials are ok too)

Also, unfortunately I am forced to use Windows for this (don’t ask me why 🫠), but I know nothing about Windows because I hate it. Practical software suggestions are very much welcome, too!

#ffmpeg #help#askFedi #codec#AVI#H265#H264 #movie #video #videoCompression #compression #encoding#HandBrake #heif #heic #avif #mp4 #mkv#Wondows

So I have hundreds of videos of ~1 minute recorded from my phone ~10 years ago, and they generally don’t have that great compression, nor they are stored in a modern and advanced video format.

For archiving purposes, I want to take advantage of my workstation’s mighty GPU to process them so that the quality is approximately the same, but the file size would be strongly reduced.

Nevertheless, compressing videos is terribly hard, and way more complex than compressing pictures, so I wouldn’t really know how to do this, what format to use, what codec, what bitrate, what parameters to keep an eye on, etc.

I don’t care if the compression takes a lot of time, I just want smaller but good looking videos.

Any tips? (Links to guides and tutorials are ok too)

Also, unfortunately I am forced to use Windows for this (don’t ask me why 🫠), but I know nothing about Windows because I hate it. Practical software suggestions are very much welcome, too!

#ffmpeg #help#askFedi #codec#AVI#H265#H264 #movie #video #videoCompression #compression #encoding#HandBrake #heif #heic #avif #mp4 #mkv#Wondows