High Quality vs Highest Quality?

[DanDare1983]

I'm just after opinions on what people use to encode to main movie? High Quality is alot quicker that Highest (very slow) and I was thinking of just going for the High Quality for time saving. Any feedback would be much appreciated

[musiclover]

I almost always use automatic quality setting

[Emulgator]

Highest here, and most important: I did never regret that decision
watching reencoded 50GB -> 25GB content years later on upgraded monitors TFT FHD 40" -> OLED UHD 55"...

[DanDare1983]

Highest here, and most important: I did never regret that decision
watching reencoded 50GB -> 25GB content years later on upgraded monitors TFT FHD 40" -> OLED UHD 55"...


Do you go main movie only or full back-up? Also, how long on average does it take using 'highest'?

[Emulgator]

Full Backup.

Time effort depends on BD size and CPU/GPUs used.
Different CPUs here, on a i7-4960X it was fine to me already,
so I did not watch the encoding times too close.
I just give what quality asks for.

A more recent system for H.264 BD-ROM 40GB -> BD-R 25GB

DGDecNV RTX3080 -> x264 i9-11900K
Pass 1 208..170fps
Pass 2 42..28fps

The same system for H.265 Archive backup

DGDecNV RTX3080 -> x265 i9-11900K
Pass 1 15..9fps

NVEnc on RTX3080 is sinfully fast, too fast for me ;-)

[DanDare1983]

Full Backup.

Time effort depends on BD size and CPU/GPUs used.
Different CPUs here, on a i7-4960X it was fine to me already,
so I did not watch the encoding times too close.
I just give what quality asks for.

A more recent system for H.264 BD-ROM 40GB -> BD-R 25GB

DGDecNV RTX3080 -> x264 i9-11900K
Pass 1 208..170fps
Pass 2 42..28fps

The same system for H.265 Archive backup

DGDecNV RTX3080 -> x265 i9-11900K
Pass 1 15..9fps

NVEnc on RTX3080 is sinfully fast, too fast for me ;-)

Hi, is DGdecNV using the GPU? What's the quality like as I'm currently using integrated graphics on an 19 12900k.

[stonesfan129]

I think the conventional wisdom is to use "Automatic Quality." For me, that usually defaults to Very Fast for BD25 or Good for BD9. I have noticed better results on most stuff using Highest (Very Slow) though. I'd say just use the slowest speed you can manage. I'm on a R7 5700G and generally it takes around 1.5-2hrs to compress something on the slowest setting to BD25 and burn a disc.