How to support x265

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Enzoigolo
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How to support x265

Post by Enzoigolo »

Hello,

This is my first post in this forum and I was wondering if you know what settings I need to support x265 when ripping DVDs since it may be the best quality you can get
Woodstock
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Re: How to support x265

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You're not going to get x265 when RIPPING DVDs (or Bluray), as that isn't a supported format for those disks.

You can CONVERT to x265 using a number of tools, including handbrake, and the result will be smaller than the original DVD rip.

But your original rip will be in the format used by the disk.
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Ezatoka
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Re: How to support x265

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DVDs usually use MPEG2 for the video tracks
BluRays usually use x264 for the video tracks
UHDs usually use x265 for the video tracks

As already said you can rip the movies and transcode them via e.g. Handbrake.
demon
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Re: How to support x265

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"x264" and "x265" are not codecs, but open-source implementations of encoders for H.264 (aka MPEG-4 part 10, aka MPEG-4 AVC) and H.265 (aka MPEG-H part 2, aka MPEG-H HEVC), respectively.

Also, there are lots of extant BD releases with MPEG2 and Microsoft/SMPTE VC-1 video.

Not to be nitpicky, but...
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Re: How to support x265

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demon wrote:
Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:42 pm
Not to be nitpicky, but...
Ezatoka wrote:
Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:41 pm
...usually use...
demon
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Re: How to support x265

Post by demon »

Almost nobody producing commercial discs is using x265. I can count the number of discs I've dumped on my two hands (and I've dumped nearly 1000 Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray discs) that has metadata showing it was authored with x265.
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