NVENC H265 in Vidcoder/Handbrake

[stonesfan99]

Has anybody tried this out yet? I tried using it on CRF20 and other than producing large files and having noticeably lower quality than using x264; I thought it was a pretty good balance of time spent encoding and resulting quality. What are your thoughts on this? Is NVENC H265 worth using if I am looking to do quick encodes? The disk space used doesn't bother me. I can always buy a larger HDD when one comes out for a reasonable price. I mainly want to produce these files to watch on my laptop or phone when I'm not at home. I'd prefer not to peg out my Ryzen 7 1800X for an hour at a time encoding with x264 if I can run an encode with NVENC in a fraction of the time and be okay with the resulting file.

[blud7]

Found it better to do an average bitrate encode instead of CQ. Around 2500 kbps to 3500 kbps for 1080p encodes quite well. 1500 kbps for animation.