hanbrake average bitrate

[scarlac]

Hi

I'm using handbrake to convert my dvd's and blurays to mkv.
I'm just testing my first bluray, what average bitrate do I need to use with blurays.

I see that many converted blurays (1080) have something like 10Gb for a 2 hour movie.

thanks

[yoda313]

What are you going to play it on? If you are just leaving it on the pc or a harddrive for a media player like wdtv than any size will do.

If you want 8gb or 4gb than you are likely burning to a single or dual layer dvdr. I'm sure that program has preset defaults for outputting to single or dual layer dvds. I've never used it myself so that is just an assumption.

Otherwise use a bitrate calculator to find your target size for 4 or 8gb.

[creamyhorror]

Just use a RF value of 21 or 22 for good quality on your HD encodes. (Constant Quality mode)

[txporter]

Just use a RF value of 21 or 22 for good quality on your HD encodes. (Constant Quality mode)

+1. I tend to use 19-20 for SD encodes and 21-22 for HD.

[Bwizzy]

What are you going to play it on? If you are just leaving it on the pc or a harddrive for a media player like wdtv than any size will do.

If you want 8gb or 4gb than you are likely burning to a single or dual layer dvdr. I'm sure that program has preset defaults for outputting to single or dual layer dvds. I've never used it myself so that is just an assumption.

Otherwise use a bitrate calculator to find your target size for 4 or 8gb.

It all depends on what you're going to be playing it on. If you're going to be doing the home theater thing with DTV and surround sound receiver, 4-8GB isn't that much unusual. CQ is good, but I like setting the resolution and bitrate manually. for movies with a lot of special effects I keep it between 6-8000 kbps. Having it set to CQ, I beghin to see video artifacts on some scenes. Furthermore, since you're using mkv format you can just use the DTS Passthrough in the audio setting so you can retain the audio quality.