Good morning #GTribe How are things? I hope well!
So I have been doing some testing this morning between H.265 on handbrake. I did a video encoding test using the software version of it vs the hardware NVENC now available. In sort, it isn't worth it. Keeping it at a CQP of 20 on both is not going to get you the same result. Stick to Software.
The long version... At CQP of 20 the NVENC bloats the file to over 400MB for around 5 minutes (Bigger size than the H.264 file), while the software H.265 is… See More
only 127MB. On top of that the quality of the software looks better, and even smooths the image slightly, so it helps with gain levels being high adding say "noise" to a video. So it can act as a simple "noise reducer" if you can't use it in say Resolve (Due to being on the free version lol). On top of that when I set the NVENC to 5mbps on the encode it did reduce the file size quite a bit (to under 200MB), but it didn't smooth appropriately like the software encode.
There are 2 major points towards H.265... ONE as I mentioned is to help "clean" up a general image to look better, and 2 COMPRESSION. It delivers 2:1 compression ratio against H.264 with the same quality. So the whole point of using it is to have a much smaller file. So in that using the Handbrakes hardware encoding with NVENC is a waste of time because it doesn't do either other than just speed through it.
I know this was a bit long lol, also not on specific "gaming", but if you are trying to archive videos and need to save space, I hope this is informative.
An article on H.265 High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC)
www.cnet.com/news/what-is-hevc-high-efficiency-video-coding-h-265-and-4k-compression-explained
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Thank you for that very valuable information. SOmething worth keeping in mind.
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Good morning Clay have a great day.
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