Open zcutlip opened 2 years ago
@zcutlip Good idea. This project is currently no longer under active development. I have a new project here which is much better suited for transcoding 4K content and HDR:
https://github.com/donmelton/other_video_transcoding
An upcoming version of the other-transcode
tool from that project will actually copy HDR10 metadata when transcoding.
Okay, that's good to know, thank you.
I haven't tried other-transcode
yet since I do all my transcoding on a Mac mini. This caveat on the wiki suggests maybe macOS is less than ideal:
Apple VideoToolbox is the only hardware video encoder available on macOS. And although it can produce good quality, it's not possible to further improve that quality via tuning.
@zcutlip Which macOS is less than ideal in terms of tweaking, the quality, especially on the newer Apple Silicon-based models, is quite good. Plus, other-transcode
can use the x264
and x265
software encoders as well. If you want to use x264
, I strongly recommend the --x264-cbr
option.
I'm not sure if anything special needs to be done for UHD blu-rays either on the ripping side, or when using
transcode-video
. Particularly as it applies to fancy stuff like HDR, dolby vision, & atmosI've ripped a couple UHD blu-rays and encoded them using the same options I've always used, and they seem to be fine. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn at some point there was a better way, or I missed something
Anyway, a mention of this in the documentation would be useful, even if only to say nothing special is required compared to "normal" blu-ray rips.
Thanks!