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Slow down a bit here. You say you got playback issues but then bring up encoding settings. Do you have problems with the encoding or playback?

 

If your colors are washed out then that might be a playback issue. Which GPU do you have in your HTPC? For some reason Nvidia will default (or at least used to) to limited RGB range (16-235 instead of 0-255). Changing that in the Nvidia control panel would fix it if that's the issue.

 

As for your encoding settings, roughly which x264 preset do you currently use? You only mention the number of reference frames.

Also, is there any particular reason why you use burn in subs instead of softsubs? They will look more worse and lose some functionality (like being able to replace or remove them).

 

 

Another question I got is, why do you encode your videos at all? Why not just play the original file? If you are ripping your DVDs/Blurays then I highly recommend you switch from average bitrate to constant quality, and then use something like the "slower" or "very slow" (possibly even placebo if you got a really powerful computer) preset. Your files will either look better, and/or be smaller. The quality should be more constant too.

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Hi,

 

Just setting up my home theater PC but I've being having alot of issues finding the best video playback for my compressed movies. One of issues is the colour is washed out and I switch it from hardware to software.

But then I get alot of artifacts with my video playback. ( I understand that my compress video may course artifacts, but it doesn't show when I have use hardware enabled)

 

My Handbrake settings:

 

PICTURE:

Anamorphic: Strict

Cropping: Custom 0,0,0,0

FILTERS: 

Deinterlace: Off

Decomb: On and set to default

VIDEO:

Framerate: Same as Source, Constant Framerate

Optimised Video: Use Advanced Tab instead

Quality: Avg Bitrate 5000, 2-Pass Encoding

AUDIO: Codec AC3 Passthru

SUBTITLES: Foreign Audio Scan, Burn In

ADVANCED:  Reference Frames: 4

 

Any suggestions on how to solve these playback issues?

 

Cheers.

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Slow down a bit here. You say you got playback issues but then bring up encoding settings. Do you have problems with the encoding or playback?

 

If your colors are washed out then that might be a playback issue. Which GPU do you have in your HTPC? For some reason Nvidia will default (or at least used to) to limited RGB range (16-235 instead of 0-255). Changing that in the Nvidia control panel would fix it if that's the issue.

 

As for your encoding settings, roughly which x264 preset do you currently use? You only mention the number of reference frames.

Also, is there any particular reason why you use burn in subs instead of softsubs? They will look more worse and lose some functionality (like being able to replace or remove them).

 

 

Another question I got is, why do you encode your videos at all? Why not just play the original file? If you are ripping your DVDs/Blurays then I highly recommend you switch from average bitrate to constant quality, and then use something like the "slower" or "very slow" (possibly even placebo if you got a really powerful computer) preset. Your files will either look better, and/or be smaller. The quality should be more constant too.

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