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Tag: HandBrake

  • Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04

    Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04

    The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but it does mean that the GUI is no longer skinned with my system settings on KDE. Oh well… The bigger issue is that, with a…

  • HandBrake – H.265 NVEnc 1080p Ripping Chart and Guidelines

    HandBrake – H.265 NVEnc 1080p Ripping Chart and Guidelines

    With a Plex server, I want my collection of movies backed up digitally so I can watch them when and where I want to. This involves a two-step process. First, I have to rip the video from Blu Ray, which I do using MakeMKV. Since that process is pretty straightforward, I’m not going to cover…

  • HandBrake – Convert Files with GPU/Nvenc Rather than CPU

    HandBrake – Convert Files with GPU/Nvenc Rather than CPU

    I don’t know exactly when HandBrake added the capability of using the GPU for encoding, but it was somewhere between 1.3.1 (current version in the Ubuntu repositories) and 1.3.3 (current version on PPA). Regardless, this option offers dramatic speed improvements, particularly when working with 4K videos. In this post, I’ll show how to use this…