HandBrake advice

[kyrcy]

I am using HandBrake for the first time and thinking if the standard options (constant quality: RF:20) will produce the best possible video output quality from a DVD to a mkv file using x264 video codec. Any advice?

[mike20021969]

See here:
https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/ConstantQuality

To sum up: when converting from a DVD source, there is no reason to go above an RF of ~19, which is roughly equivalent to how heavily the DVD is compressed. If you do go higher, your output will be larger than your input!

[aedipuss]

i'd recommend trying vidcoder(handbrake gui). adjust presets to your needs and save them.

[kyrcy]

I tried constant quality: RF:20 and the video quality was bad, then I changed to constant quality: RF:10 and the quality was much better, but the resulting file size was too big. In both cases I chose DTSPassthru to keep the original audio. I am now trying Avg Bitrate (kbps): 2500, but again I am not certain for the value.

[aedipuss]

dts audio creates huge files by itself. try cq18 and converting dts to mp3 or aac.