Reliable software to encode into HEVC/HEVC2?

[Astraea Kisaragi]

In last 15 years I ammased arround a 10TB of anime. Unfortunately many of it due their outdated containers are quite oversized for their quality. While the anime community did a relatively good job of reencoding many, also many less known ones where not even touched.

Is there any good (free) encoder what could reliably encode with not too much messing arround into 10 or 12bit HEVC?
Last week happended that I downloaded from a certain community a HEVC version one of my less known faves, Sansha Sanyou and the sound was completly off, like sounding inside a metal box (bad sound remux I guess)

I have a Ryzen 1600, so hardware should be not a issue.

[Spec_Ops_Ape]

Have you looked at / tried Handbrake, will do 10b/12b H.265:
https://handbrake.fr/

[Highway]

I use Magix (formerly Sony) Vegas 15 pro myself from a recent humble bundle, has Nvidia GPU assisted transcoding for H264 and H265 HVEC.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

I try Handbrake, thanks for the tip. I used a few times years back, but HEVC wasn't arround then. Im giving a go with DN Angel, encoding to 10bit HEVC and at same time chopping down the useless english dub and keep only the japanese with subs.

My GPU is relatively weak (GTX 1050 Ti) so not sure if I should chose nvidia assist, I will later this year upgrade to GTX 1660 or whatever similar comes out until.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Yeah it works, but I have problems with catching subtitles in certain dual audio releases.

Anyways: Canvas 2 Nijiiro no Sketch went down from 280MB to 100MB per episode using HEVC 10bit and with Decomb & NLMeans & Lapsharp it looks even slightly sharper and better.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

i also use handbrake and vlc's DLLs to encode to x264 using an i3-530 cpu +nvidia 9800GT gpu.
took me about 9 hours per dvd vs 2 hours on a faster i3-3240 + gtx 960 2GB.


maybe i will try encoding in x265 once i can afford to buy an updated pc. maybe it will took 30 minutes to less than an hour.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

According tests what I have seen AMD Ryzen has the upper hand in encoding VS same priced Intel. The experts here might confirm that. With my R5 1600 it takes arround 15 minutes per episode using a medium quality setting.

[tacoshy]

Astraea Kisaragi eredeti hozzászólása:

According tests what I have seen AMD Ryzen has the upper hand in encoding VS same priced Intel. The experts here might confirm that. With my R5 1600 it takes arround 15 minutes per episode using a medium quality setting.

yes because of the core count.
Differs from software to software though. However if you do CPU encoding TR would be the optimum or itnel HEDT's whicha re a bit more expensive

[emoticorpse]

Vidcoder is whar I would use

[Snow]

Astraea Kisaragi eredeti hozzászólása:

10TB of anime

What in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world is wrong with you?!
Nah, just kidding, definitely go with Handbrake, Adobe Media Encoder can also be of help here.

[tacoshy]

Snow eredeti hozzászólása:

Astraea Kisaragi eredeti hozzászólása:

10TB of anime

Adobe Media Encoder can also be of help here.

Yes and thats the one program that will run better on intel then AMD :D

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Lol. I actually tried to chop down that 10TB by replacing whatever I can with HEVC. Now when one episode in standard h264 1080p takes 1,35GB it will become even more useful as ever. Luckily community does a good job to re-encode new ones after batch is out, not so good on older ones tho.

I had Sword Art Online Movie - Ordinal Scale in 4K, h264 would have been 35GB for a not even 2 hours movie. HEVC was 6,5GB in comparison.

[emoticorpse]

Consider encoding with gpu instead of cpu depending on your videocard.

[tacoshy]

emoticorpse eredeti hozzászólása:

Consider encoding with gpu instead of cpu depending on your videocard.

Depends also on Program and CPU as well as RAM. With Adobe I encode and render faster with CPU and RAM support while it is not a consumer CPU but exactly for such tasks.