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HandBrake is a cross-platform, open source video transcoding tool. The highlight of new released HandBrake 1.0.0/1 must be the support of Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV), which greatly improves its performance producing a fast transcoding speed. However, if we want to get a reasonable quality and remove some limitations of Quick Sync, you'd better find the best Handbrake alternative to convert video with hardware acceleration supported to speed up video conversion without any issue.
Intel Quick Sync Video is Intel's brand for their dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core. The name "Quick Sync" refers to the use case of quickly transcoding ("syncing") a video from, for example, a DVD or Blu-ray Disc to a format appropriate to, for example, a smartphone by leveraging technology built into many of Intel's more recent processors. Unlike video encoding on a CPU or a general-purpose GPU, Quick Sync is a dedicated hardware core on the processor die. This allows for a much more power efficient video processing. According to Intel, this technology makes it possible for the company's new processors to transcode video more quickly than a $500 video card.
I have a Windows 10 PC with an Intel Core i5-6600 Skylake processor. I noticed in Handbrake that it said QuickSync was not enabled, and not supported. I realized that this was probably a driver issue. Since I have an Nvidia GTX 970 graphics card installed, my Intel integrated graphics had never had its driver installed. Here's how I resolved this.
I encode my video files in HEVC (aka h.265, x265). When I was doing my encoding without QuickSync, my encoding speed was under 10fps. After enabling QuickSync, my encoding speed was over 20fps, sometimes reaching over 40fps. That is a huge performance boost and a big time saver.
How-To
1. Reboot the PC and enter the bios (mash your delete key repeatedly before Windows starts loading).
2. Find the place in your bios where you can enabled your integrated graphics and discrete/PCIe graphics to run at the same time. I have an Asus motherboard, and it was actually hard to find. I finally located it under a menu called "System Agent." Use your best judgment when tweaking the bios. You can always go back and load the defaults if something doesn't work. Ultimately, refer to your motherboard's manual.
3. Save your bios settings and boot back into Windows. Wait for Windows 10 to detect the integrated graphics and automatically install the Intel drivers.
4. Download HandBrake latest version 1.0.1 (64 bit) for Windows Vista or later from handbrake.fr. After install is complete, open Handbrake. The warning about Intel QuickSync being unsupported is now gone and replaced by an option to disable QuickSync.
5. After finishing installation, launch HandBrake. Click Open Source button to import source DVD or video filesinto HandBrake.
6. Later, move to Video tab and choose H.264 (Intel QSV) or H.265 as video codec which is available for both MP4 and MKV container.
7. If necessary, you can set available HandBrake Quick Sync options to adjust parameters (frames, bitrate etc.) by inputting following string into Extra Options box.
option1=value1:option2=value2
Handbrake Intel Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration tech enables you to improve video conversion speed a lot. But meanwhile problems emerge. After a test, we get a lower quality resulting file with larger size when using Quick Sync on HandBrake than using x264. Besides, HandBrake also has no breakthrough on input and output formats. If you want to rip copy-protected Blu-ray/DVD and encode video with high quality at a fast speed, the top Handbrake alternative – Dimo Video Converter Ultimate will be a likewise tool that can satisfy you!
It is considered as the best replacement to Handbrake. It is an all-in-one H.264/H.265 decoder, encoder, converter and player. It allows people to rip Blu-ray/DVD and convert H.264/H.265/HEVC to common video files including MPEG-4, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, WMV, MKV... without quality loss. The Intel QSV tech enables convert video with world's fastest speed, up to 6X faster than any other converters.
Plus, this Hardware acceleration tech Intel Quick Sync Video also applies to video to mobile device conversion, e.g., ultra-fast converting videos to iPhone (X/8/8 Plus), iPad (Pro/Mini 4/Air 2), Android (Samsung/LG), TV (Samsung/LG/Sony/Panasonic), game console (Xbox One S/PSP/PS4 Pro). Apart from that, its built-in editor can help users to do some basic editing work before conversion, like trimming, cutting, adding audio information/watermark etc. Note this Quick Sync video tech for Handbrake only applies to Windows PC, then the best Handbrake alternative with Intel QSV support for Mac OS - Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is needed. Download the alternative to Handbrake 1.0.0/1 and start encoding process.
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Launch the Handbrake Alternative and import H.264/H.265 files to the software. You can click the "Add File" button to load it. Or you can directly drag the videos from your computer to this program. Or click "Add Blu-ray" or "Add DVD" to load Blu-ray/DVD movies.
Click the "Select Format" bar and on the output list, we recommend you to choose the "Format -> Video -> MP4" as the target format. Of course, you can also set DivX, MOV, WMV, MPEG-2, etc as the output format as you need.
Tip: Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters, like bitrate, video size, audio channel as you need.
Click the "Start" icon after all settings, and the Handbrake alternative tool will start encoding video to a format you've selected immediately. After the conversion, just click "Open" button to locate the output files. You can now use your converted video files anywhere you want them: playing, editing or uploading.
That's the whole process of fixing Quick Sync issue. The Handbrake alternative Dimo Video Converter Ultimate is almost 2 times faster than Handbrake. Can't believe it's so simple? It's worth a shot right away. Don't forget to join the discussion below to share experiences if you succeed or have a better solution.
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