We are about to venture into a heated and abnormal world. Hardware encoders, designed for real-time encoding, may be reaching the point they can also be considered for video archival. The three common consumers options available that we will look at are: AMD’s VCN encoder (using...
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AMD Hardware Encoding in 2021 (VCE / VCN)
It’s 2021 and there still isn’t a lot of good info about AMD’s VCN hardware encoder for consumers. To that end, I will present my own take on the current “war” between software and hardware encoders, then go into quick details of how to best use...
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tl;dr: If you don’t want to do the work by hand on the command line, use FastFlix. If you have any issues, reach out on discord or open a github issue. I talked about this before with my encoding setting for handbrake post, but there is...
Continue reading...Encoding settings for HDR 4K videos using 10-bit x265
There is currently a serious lack of data on compressing 4K HDR videos out there, so I took it upon myself to get learned in the ways of the x265 encoding world. First things first, this is NOT a guide for Dolby Vision or HDR10. This...
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