Encode H.265 with Handbrake Too Long? Fixed!

Diana Joan

Aug 16, 2017 07:54 am / Posted by Diana Joan

Big news,  Handbrake 1.0.7 version is coming which fix decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV, improve handling of AVI files with broken indices. However, some Handbrake old users still can't solve this trouble: Handbrake HEVC/H265 encoding Blu-ray in 25 hours. Especially when you want to go outside recently and need to get the video from Blu-ray quickly or you need to handle with multiple Blu-ray movies, such as: 100 or 200+ Blu-ray movies, you may need to wait for about half or one year, it's really a long story.

Why Is It So Long for Handbrake encode H.265?

Analyze this issue from the H.265 side: Enocding H.265 needs very CPU heavy, so if you want to do it faster, you will need a much faster machine than that, you'd be looking at an i7 minimum to get minimum transcode times. In addition, if you have a good cooler on the system, you can overclock the CPU which will speed it up somewhat.

Analyze this issue from Handbrake: Even your PC configuration is enough, Blu-ray ripper body should support the H.265 GPU acceleration, by contrast, even though Handbrake has released 1.0.7 version, it's still only use one CPU core and does not apply any advanced encoding speedup technologies like multithreading.

How to Encode H.265 from Blu-ray With Fast Speed?

You can update the computer configuration, but you can't change the Handbrake, you have to find another software which is better and more powerful than Handbrake. You can try Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate which takes full use of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD ® Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP), it can largely accelerate video encoding speed to save users time when you transcode or convert Blu-ray video to H.265 codec and H.264 codec. From the test, you only need one hour, you can get the perfect H.265 encoding files from Blu-ray. 30x faster than Handbrake.

As the best Nvidia H.265 encoder , you not only can load Blu-ray disc, you can import the DVD disc, disc image, folder and other common video formats to this software easily, Handbrake only can support the DVD and Blu-ray without any protection, here you can load any DVD and Blu-ray, this software can remove most Blu-ray and DVD copy protection. At the same time, you can enjoy the fast speed when you are convert DVD to H.265.

How to Enjoy the Best Handbrake Alternative for H.265 Encoding

Before the exciting steps, you need to download this software on your PC, this software supports the latest Windows 10 OS, you only need to follow the guide and click the next, next, next again, after few minutes, you can get your desired H.265 encoder. Let's enter the H.265 encoding world.

Step 1. Load the Blu-ray movie

You can load the Blu-ray movie by clicking "File" > "Load from Disc" , also you can drag the Blu-ray movie to the left window (Right is the preview window, you can watch the video smoothly). By the way, when you want to get the H.265 from DVD, you can load the DVD to this software, at the same time, you also can import other common video files, like: MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, H.264, etc.

load video/dvd/blu-ray

Step 2. Enable GPU Encode Acceleration

When you want to enjoy the acceleration, you need to do some settings: Click "Tools" > "Options", in the opened "Options" window, click "Acceleration" menu, then check "Enable GPU Encode Acceleration" option so that the program will accelerate conversion speed when you are encoding Blu-ray or DVD to H.265 codec.

NOTE: You need to make sure your PC configuration supports the GPU acceleration, you can refre to this: Nvidia Cuda Speed Up.

Enable GPU Encode Acceleration

Step 3. Output video with H.265 codec

Click "Format" drop-down bar, you can select "Common Video" > "H.265 Video(*.MP4)" as the output file format, you also can choose H.265 HD Video (.*MP4) or MKV HD Video (.*mkv) which can provide the HD video with fast speed.

Output H.265 MP4 video

If you are fimilarwith the video and want to full control of the video, you can click setting and adjust the video parameters, like: video codec, video frame, video resolution, video bitrate, etc.

Adjust output profile parameters

Step 4. Start H.265 edcoding process

With this software, you don't worry about any H.265 playback and encoding solutions, click Convert button boldly, just wait for a while, you can get your loved video file.

Is it so easy? Choose the right software, you can get better service, this software is with the high stability, when you want to get H.265 from common video, you can import the folder and do batch video conversion for saving much time.


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