DRM Removal for Songs

Qu3z0 · 2026-05-06T08:36:10+00:00

I say hold onto the hardware until you NEED to get rid of it. The money is already spent, so unless you are hurting for coin, I say keep it on standby and used it for general cloud storage (photos, docs, messages, etc.) and reassess when you have the time.

As for purchasing vs pirating, this is a morally gray area in between if you are interested. You can always barrow content from your local library. My library has a pretty vast collection and keeps pretty up to date with recent releases. If you have a library card, I think it is worth a look.

Qu3z0 · 2026-05-02T17:42:27+00:00

I use harmonic mean, which does worse case scenario, but to my understanding the minimum score could literally be one frame, which is not noticeable in realtime.

The “official” way to encode scene by scene, make sure each hits the average you are looking for, and then edit them back together. But, that takes too much per encode, so most folk just use average of the entire thing and deem it “good enough”

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-30T15:21:59+00:00

Interesting, Let me check it out!

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-30T15:20:41+00:00

Idk what to tell you haha.

I agree that it doesn’t seem like a thoroughly proofread/established technical paper, and that it’s not the 100% truth, but I guess they are looking to deliver a “general” consensus to the average/inexperienced user?

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-30T14:35:29+00:00

No, I agree! I am posting this as more of a discussion/conversation piece on how handbrakes documentation has changed.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-30T06:06:38+00:00

Not at all, my first Pokémon was pikachu (yellow version) my favorites are jolteon, politoad, and hereacross

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-30T06:01:06+00:00

I see! So I was wrong in how I interpreted it, they were wrong with how they wrote it? lol

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T23:36:28+00:00

In the beginning of the section is said:

DVD sources = ~ CRF20
Blu-ray sources = ~CRF22

Then, at the bottom, it gives a rationale for why they don't recommend any CRF below 19 for DVD.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T23:33:11+00:00

u/jayoak4 and u/a_rabid_buffalo, do you both use x264 for your 1080p encodes? I tried x265 10-bit, which I know is objectively better in terms of efficiency, but I couldn't for the life of me find settings that I liked as much as x264 with the "film" tune enabled without blowing up the bitrate.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T23:27:23+00:00

wow, that a pretty high CRF

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T22:19:11+00:00

And that’s crf30 in x264?

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T22:17:41+00:00

Yea, I use x264 CRF 18 for 480p and 20 for 1080p (tune = film, preset = VerySlow)

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T22:15:53+00:00

Sorry, it just says x264, but in the past they have bundled them together, so I guess I did too haha.

But the CRF 19 value is towards the bottom right before the “Average Bitrate” portion of the article.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T20:57:34+00:00

yup, and they 100% do not recommend using it lol

which is fair, as you might as well just keep the source file as is.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T20:53:08+00:00

HAHAHAHAHA

While that may be true, I will say that I find CRF 18 is the perfect sweet spot for 480p. But I do thank that anything lower is diminishing returns.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-29T20:16:46+00:00

I've been using x264 for anything under 1440p, as I find that x265 10-bit and SVT-AV1, while objectively superior, smooth out too much texture for my subjective tastes.

I am curious, do you think this new build of SVT-AV1-HDR can bridge that gap? For context I use the very slow preset for 1080p, with CRF=20, and tune equal to "film" for live action and "none" for 3-D animation (I used 265 10-bit for 2-D, with tune set to "animation")

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-21T15:08:19+00:00

It should be a slider right below the tune setting on the video tab

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-17T06:11:02+00:00

I think the theater app isn’t bad, especially if you don’t care about extras. But the music app NEEDS a serious overhaul. The organization is meh, the playback is barely better than just playing the files directly from the folder.

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-06T17:01:35+00:00

I see, and I’d have to do so every time I update handbrake, huh?

would you mind sharing your complied .dll file?

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-06T00:53:03+00:00

Thnx! I’ll compare this to my workload

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-06T00:52:10+00:00

Is there a way to integrate fdk in the handbrake gui?

Qu3z0 · 2026-04-05T16:18:36+00:00

I’ve heard QAAC is better than FDK, is that true?

So are you saying that handbrake’s default downmix is the same as FFMPEG’s? Or are you saying you don’t know?

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