Optimal Handbrake settings?

[amroa]

I know the phone is full HD, but l'm wondering if anyone has tested Handbrake settings at 720 vs 1080. I know on my iPad4, 720 is good enough for airplane watching. Plus, it allows me to have 25 movies on it.

I'm queing up Avatar in several different presets to see what it will look like on the One.

 

[CaCHooKaMan]

for video, there wont really be much of a difference between 720 and 1080 on a screen that size

 

[adriandb]

for video, there wont really be much of a difference between 720 and 1080 on a screen that size

I don't think there will be any difference between 720 and 1080 on this size screen.

 

[jiggyb21]

I'm queing up Avatar in several different presets to see what it will look like on the One.

Will you please post back with your final preferred settings..

 

[amroa]

Will you please post back with your final preferred settings..

Will do. I'm on travel, so it may not be until next week.

 

[xtn]

I'm not entirely sure how it all works, but if you put a 720 vid on your ONE, won't the gpu then have to up-convert it as you watch? Might this run the battery down a bit faster than supplying your phone with video in it's native resolution?

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[adriandb]

I'm not entirely sure how it all works, but if you put a 720 vid on your ONE, won't the gpu then have to up-convert it as you watch? Might this run the battery down a bit faster than supplying your phone with video in it's native resolution?

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It will have to scale the video. In the home theater world this is done in hardware usually. I'm not sure how its achieved in mobile devices.

 

[amroa]

Re: Optimal Handbrake settings (Update)

It's taken a while for me to get back to getting my movies on the One, but I think I've found a decent balance for quality/filesize.

Note: I'm using a nightly build Handbrake, as it supports converting from my Blu-Ray rips off of my RAID drive.

1. I use the Android preset. This defaults picture size to 720.
2. I enable Large File Size. This is Handbrakes FAQ on this: "By Default, HandBrake outputs MP4 files with 32-bit chunk offset atoms (stco). This means that if the file grows above 4GB, it will be rendered useless. Enabling this option will force HandBrake to use 64-bit chunk offset atoms (co64), however some devices do not support this. As support improves, this option will likely become default in future versions of HandBrake." Of course, I'm trying to keep my videos less than 4G, so it's probably not necessary.
3. Under the Video tab, I change the Framerate to "Same as Source". It defaults to 30. I'm converting "Paul" in both options to see if there's a difference. Maybe smooth motion is affected. Don't know.
4. One final thing I do, is a trick I learned from some the Handbrake gurus. If you have subtitles that are part of the movie like Avatar, X-Men: First Class and even Paul, you can get those real easy now on Handbrake. On the Subtitles tab select Add, and then look for "Foreign Audio Scan". Select that and check the "Forced Only" box, and your subtitles will show up when needed.

As for the various presets, here are the file sizes I got for Avatar:

Android: @720 1.8GB
Andoid Table: @1280 4.1GB
iPad: @1280 5.5GB
High Profile: 11.8GB

When I played Avatar @720 vs 1280 I could not tell the difference. So for me, I'm quite happy with the "Android" preset with the items I discussed above. With my 64G Developer edition, I should be able to get about 25 movies with room to spare for my music and pictures.