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A while ago even after they've made HB pipeline 10-bit a lot of the filters still remained 8-bit, thus it was easy unknowingly degrade the encoding experience b

by eviks 3y ago

A while ago even after they've made HB pipeline 10-bit a lot of the filters still remained 8-bit, thus it was easy unknowingly degrade the encoding experience by picking the wrong filter. Think now most (all?) filters are 10-bit capable HB also had inferior AAC codec in the released version due to FDK-AAC licensing preventing it from being bundled (though might not be an issue now as I've heard the codec isn't that inferior anymore) Are there any big gotchas with the current version of this nice app?

galad87 3y ago
All filters are capable of high depth since 1.6. I would say that AAC encoder quality is not too bad now (on macOS it can use Apple's AAC encoder, so it's not an issue there). Anyway, the main issue is the lack of man power, so many requested features that would be nice to have are stuck in features paradise. I guess that's the same as every Open Source project.
- thrdbndndn 3y ago
  Is it possible to use Apple's AAC encoder on Windows in HB? You can already do it manually (installing iTunes and some 3rd party open-source CLI tools), but it would be nice to incorporate it into HB.
  - Y-bar 3y ago
    I don't think so unfortunately: > We can't link to the Core Audio DLL at all, so it's not an option unfortunately. > Apache isn't GPL compatible. Nor is linking at run time to proprietary non-system libraries. https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/191#issuecomment-412303556 https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/191#issuecomme...
    - GoblinSlayer 3y ago
      Windows has an autodiscoverable system of plugins for media playback, you don't even know what codecs you load. Linux analog is gstreamer.
- Y-bar 3y ago
  I know too little to properly contribute to the code, and unfortunately they do not accept donations which I would have hoped would allow some to work a little extra on the project. https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?p=201506 https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?p=201506

by eviks 3y ago

galad87 3y ago

All filters are capable of high depth since 1.6. I would say that AAC encoder quality is not too bad now (on macOS it can use Apple's AAC encoder, so it's not an issue there). Anyway, the main issue is the lack of man power, so many requested features that would be nice to have are stuck in features paradise. I guess that's the same as every Open Source project.

thrdbndndn 3y ago
Is it possible to use Apple's AAC encoder on Windows in HB? You can already do it manually (installing iTunes and some 3rd party open-source CLI tools), but it would be nice to incorporate it into HB.
- Y-bar 3y ago
  I don't think so unfortunately: > We can't link to the Core Audio DLL at all, so it's not an option unfortunately. > Apache isn't GPL compatible. Nor is linking at run time to proprietary non-system libraries. https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/191#issuecomment-412303556 https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/191#issuecomme...
  - GoblinSlayer 3y ago
    Windows has an autodiscoverable system of plugins for media playback, you don't even know what codecs you load. Linux analog is gstreamer.
Y-bar 3y ago
I know too little to properly contribute to the code, and unfortunately they do not accept donations which I would have hoped would allow some to work a little extra on the project. https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?p=201506 https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?p=201506