McWilliams’ World

Okay, I’ve had it. I wasted hours this weekend trying out other MP4 video encoders such as AutoMKV, MeGUI and nothing compares to HandBreak’s ease of use. I’m no video expert – nor do I want to be. I don’t want to know what all the terminology is; I just want to plug in my video’s, choose the target format, some very basic quality settings (or just choose a profile that is right for what I’m doing) and hit go. HandBreak does that. It hides most of the mumbo-jumbo.

The programs mentioned above have unnecessarily difficult setups, settings, and operations. Most required additional programs or files to be downloaded and placed in certain directories. Ach… too complicated. Fail!

Only complaint is that the process takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r! Nearly 2+ hrs per video. One thought is that it’s doing a two pass conversion; meaning that it runs through the movie twice to get the best possible quality. I may just try a single pass and see what happens if there is any difference ’cause it’s just too slow. The nice thing is that I can queue up x number of movies and let it chew.

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