https://alinuxuser.com/tags/handbreak/ Recent content in Handbreak on alinuxuser https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo en-us Sun, 05 Nov 2023 10:07:00 -0600 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2023/11/2023-11-05-handbreak-settings/ Sun, 05 Nov 2023 10:07:00 -0600 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2023/11/2023-11-05-handbreak-settings/ <p>I record a lot of gameplay footage using Nvidia ShadowPlay. I play most games on my ultrawide monitor at a resolution of 3440x1440. At times, the file sizes can balloon up to over 10GB with a target bit rate is 50Mbps.</p> <p>In an effort to reduce the storage size, and not to have to upgrade my hard drive, I decided to explore Handbreak to compress and encode some of the videos I recorded. After doing some research, here are the settings I picked, which seem to find the right balance between compression and quality.</p>