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My favorite ripping GUI front end, by large and by far. It's leaps and bounds better than any HandBrake based frontend, largely because it has a 10bit pipe for output as opposed to HandBrake's 8bit-to-10bit conversion pipe for output. StaxRip keeps all HDR VUI stats/info and, once you familiarize yourself with the x264/x264 CLI after weeks/months of practice encodes, becomes the absolute go-to tool for your encoding needs. I prefer to decrypt and backup my BDR/UHD discs to my SSD with MakeMKV (AnyDVD has a time limit and costs 60$; MakeMKV is perpetually free and I like the MakeMKV community a lot more than the RedFox community), transcode the 1:1 MakeMKV rip to either AVC or HEVC with Stax, and then remux the transcode with the MKVToolNix tool kit to polish off the finished matroska's metadata (i'm a stat whore, so i need informative labels on all my matroska tracks).
If you want a great StaxRip alternative, check out Hybrid. The two best front-ends out there, and they're totally FREE :D
ps. stax and hybrid will be incredibly difficult for no0b encoders. there's a magnificent help function built into the GUI (just right click on any part of the gui window that you want more information about) that brings up your preferred lib encoder's extended help information in cmd prompt, but this can still be daunting to a layman if you have hardly any encoding experience under your belt. It took me about two solid months of ripping and encoding bdr/uhd movies from my personal library every single day while reading the readthedocs.io CLI documentation for both AVC and HEVC. but boy, once you understand how to manipulate quantization and crf-vbv to your specific likings, StaxRip will be like uncut China White Heroin for the budding encodesmith.
10000/10, most valuable and highest recommended encoding engine and program that you can use (apart from makemkv) imo |
