Handbrake (GPU) encoding capped at 50%?

[WeeemRCB]

Hi

I occasionally use handbrake for NVENC encoding and I noticed my GPU (1080Ti) usage was pretty low.

Looking at TaskManager I can see that the GPU Video Encode is pinned to 50% and my CPU (3900X) is hovering around 30-40% usage.

 

Is there a way to derestrict or adjust the software to allow its encoding to use 100% of the NVENC chip on my GPU?

It should be able to do it it's not bottlenecked by any of the other components.

 

 

 

 

 

[WeeemRCB]

Got it sussed.

I started using Tdarr for bulk processing and it now uses 95+% on a single encode and 100% on 2 or more.

 

What's really handy is that I can still use my Handbrake presets in Tdarr

Sample Transcode Options | CLI arguments/preset:

--preset-import-file "C:\Handbrake_Presets_backup\20211003_PCName.json" -Z "My Preset Name"

 

I have plenty of spare RAM, so I started using a 12Gb RAM drive (ImDisk) so transcoding won't add extra R/W cycles on my SSDs while processing.

 

Tdarr lets you specify the transcode folder, but Handbrake uses the %Temp% path for its transcoding before putting the final file in its destination path.