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This software continues to be an app that could potentially be the best around yet under-delivers drastically.
It's open source software, that uses open source tools behind the scene yet there is no official Linux build other than via PPA which by definition limits it to Ubuntu based distros. Yes you can usually download it from your distros repos but I find it odd that the developers essentially endorse one distro over others. Why no .rpm? Why no .deb? Why no appimages, or Suse packages or just a generic Linux binary?
But it's more than that, they include QS support on Windows, but they only included the fast and medium presets, no "best" preset because of some silly explanation. They won't include QS supprt for Linux despite the fact that it's implemented using open source libraries. The won't include NVENC support for any platform, despite ffmpeg supporting it with an open source library.
It goes on, there's only an "advanced" configuration option for x264, not any other encoder and even that only exposes what the HB developers care about.
Yet here's the sad reality, let's assume they fixed all these issues, you still wouldn't want to use it for anything other than 4:2:0 8 bit encoding, because, in one of the dumbest things imaginable, they support 10 bit x264 encoding and 10/12 bit x265 encoding yet the internal video processing pipeline, by their own admission, is 4:2:0 8 bit! So if you have a 16 bit 4:4:4 source and choose x265 12 bit Intra, it will still convert it to 4:2:0 8 bit for processing before spiting it out as 12 bit!
Absolutely ridiculous, this software should be considered strictly for the amateur hobbyist that wants to convert his DVD's/BD's for playback on a tablet or similar device and that's it. |
