21.08.2019

X264 Vs X265 File Size

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Convert your video files to reduce size without losing quality Yes It’s possible with StaxRip In this video tutorial you can find how it work. Enjoy!

People that dont care about x265 would have all the codecs in a single group with a single file size range, so not really a lot of diffeence at the UI level. For those that do want x265 they would break it out of the default group and set it up on its own with a file size range and order it above the default group in each resolution they wanted.

NVIDIA GPUs (as well as Intel processors with built-in GPU and a motherboard with built-in Intel graphics) are capable of hardware-based video encoding and can drastically decrease encoding time.

  • X265 and x264 are two different video compression standards that are used to compress video in size but still maintain the quality of the video. X264 is an earlier codec and is used in a lot of videos nowdays and x265 is a newer standard.
  • In addition to that, H.265 is much more than just compression, it supports a wider color gamut (10 bit vs. 8 bit), super high resolutions and more. So what’s next for the video encoders? A battle for survival between VP9 and H.265 and we can’t wait to see how one compares to another in the near future.

NVIDIA NVENC : H.264 – NVIDIA CUDA capable cards (click for list) or H.265 – GeForce 900 series (Maxwell 2nd generation) or later. Click –> NVIDIA H.265 encoder information.

Intel QSVEncC: H.264 – 2nd thru 4th generation Intel processors or H.265 – 5th & 6th (+) generation Intel processors. Click –> Intel Quick Sync explained.

My setup: NVIDIA GeForce GTX950 (Purchased for $115 US):

  • 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
  • Core Clock 1127 MHz
  • Boost Clock 1317 MHz
  • 1 x DL-DVI-I 1 x HDMI 3 x DisplayPort 1.2
  • 768 CUDA Cores
  • PCI Express 3.0 x16

Computer Mainboard/Processor :

  • ASUS M5A97 R2.0
  • AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor

StaxRip 64 setting: NVIDIA H.265 – NVIDIA (acvuvid native).
Typical x265 HEVC encode times (approximate):
60-minute 1080p video: 8 min (compared to 1.5 hours for CPU encode).
60-minute 720p video: 3 min 30 sec (compared to 35+ min for CPU encode).
45-minute 720p video: 2 min 40 sec (compared to 30+ min for CPU encode).

1080p movie x265 HEVC encode time:

Example: Star Wars – Force Awakens (2hr 18min 21 GB BDRip original) took 3.75 hours to re-encode as x265 via CPU (Intel I7 3.5GHz). Encode using the NVIDIA GPU took 10 minutes to re-encode an equivalent quality 1080p 3 GB x265.

HEVC/H.265 is the first codec efficient enough for the high-quality HD video portion of the video-audio composite file to be smaller than an accompanying 484 Kbps 5.1 audio track.

Screen grab .x264 verses .x265 (right click – save image to your computer or open image in new tab to view full-size 1280×714).

The original 720p x264 file (with AC3 384kbps 6ch audio) is 2.65GB. The re-encoded high-quality 720p x265 file (with AC3 192kbps stereo audio) is 284MB (both files are equal duration – 1 hour). The x264 screen grab is from the original file. Even though the x265 screen grab is from an additional generation video, there is very little difference between the two images.

I actually had the time to make a how to video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MxdsxSyW0Y

Don’t expect any magic, I just noticed afterwards that I was way too fast when changing from step to step. Thank god the pause-button exists. Might still be a lot better than only reading a long text here. So there you go!

Original Post:

No idea if someone even remotely discussed this topic around here, but for those who didn’t just buy their new Pascal card for games, but also wanted to use it for video encoding are probably wondering how it even works without graduating from some crazy university to get things done.

Fear not, if you figured out which program to use it’s relatively simple.

  1. Download and unzip StaxRip to a folder of your choice
  2. Download the newest version of NVEnc (3.01 as of 10/11/16)
  3. Unzip the file to your desktop or a place of your choice and open up this folder: “NVEnc_3.01NVEncCx64” and copy all of the files inside
  4. Go to your StaxRip folder and search for a folder with the name “NVEncC” (or simply go to “pathtostaxripAppsNVEncC” and overwrite all files inside
  5. Open up StaxRip and pick a place where the program should store its settings. (probably the best choice is the directory you are currently working in for portable reasons)
  6. (somewhere in the middle StaxRip asks you to install AviSynth+, just install it, it is needed for the program to properly display video streams and work with certain file formats/codecs)
  7. On the right side you see your preset, which is probably set to x264. Left click on it to select the NVIDIA H.265 profile.
  8. Double-click on “Encoder options”
  9. In the new window you see variables for “Constant QP” with I, P and B. Those are for the video quality. Lower settings, such as 18 on everything, are most of the time “same quality” as I call it, but with mostly bigger filesize. You may need to experiment a bit with it, but stock settings are good as they are for solid quality and filesize.
  10. Now to the part with 10 bit. On the left side of the window (where “Basic” is currently active), click on “Other”. After that you type “–output-depth 10” without “” into the “Custom:” field.
  11. You might want consider saving your profile, so you should click the little arrow that points down next to “OK” and click “Save Profile…”. Set a name and you’re good to go! (Click “OK” afterwards to leave the Encoding Options)
  12. Use a file of any type and drag & drop it to StaxRip (select AviSynth+ as decoder if a window pops up), select your profile, click on “Next” at the bottom right of the program window (a job gets added to the joblist) and finally, click “Start” on the “Jobs” window.

Now the program is working and will encode your video to the same folder as the source with a “_new” at the end.

Best StaxRip Alternative For Encode H.265 Videos

To fix the H.265 slow encoding issue, Pavtube studio has recently update its great media conversion tool – Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate as Top StaxRip Alternative and other Windows software with perfect support for H.265/HEVC encoding acceleration. As long as your PC are running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, the H.265/HEVC encoding speed of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can be accelerated about 30X faster than before. Refer to the step guide.

*As a powerful H.265 encoder, decoder and converter.
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*Edit simply H.265/HEVC Video such as crop, trim, merge, add watermark, rotate, effects and many more.
*Transcode H.265/HEVC Video to play on iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, iPad Air 3, iPad Pro, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, LG G5, Galaxy TabPro S, Galaxy Tab S2, Blackberry, Motorola, Nokia, etc.
*Supports NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream acceleration technologies.
*Backup H.265/HEVC Video to 3D SBS MP4/MKV for Gear VR, Oculus Rift DK 2, ZEISS VR One, Freely VR, PLAY VR, etc.
*It can help you convert non-H.265 videos (H.264, MKV, DivX, AVI, WMV, MOV, MXF, MPG, MTS…) to H.265 files and vice versa.
*What’s more, this video converter severs as a wonderful H.265 video player for you.
*And with the built-in video editor, you can personalize and retouch your videos in clicks.
*For Mac users, you can get Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (Mac OS Sierra, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, etc included ).

Note: H.265 CUDA depends on whether your computer is geared up with H.265 encoding capable graphics card. Please refer to the document on its official website- NVIDIA Pascal GPU family.

Free Download and trail Best StaxRip Alternative For H.265:

How to Enable H.265 CUDA with Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

Step 1. Add Source Videos

Run the best CUDA video converter program, go to the menu bar, select Add button to select the source files like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, etc you want to import. You can also directly drag the video files to the program for conversion. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at a time.

Step 2. Choose H.265 as output format

From the drop-down list of ” Format” > “Common Video”, you can select H.265 Video(*.mp4) as the target format.

Step 3. Enable GUP acceleration

Move your cursor to “Tools” button on the top of the main interface to choose “Options” and move to “Acceleration”. Then you can enable GPU acceleration.

Step 4. Start conversion

Click the Convert button to start encoding files to H.265 based on CUDA acceleration support in 30X faster conversion speed.

Read More:

x265
Developer(s)MulticoreWare
Initial release2013; 6 years ago
Stable release
Repository
Written inC++, Assembly
Standard(s)HEVC
TypeVideo codec
LicenseGPL 2 / commercial license[2]
Websitex265.org

x265 is a library for encoding video into the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) video compression format that was developed and standardized by the ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG.[3][4] x265 is offered under either version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) or a commercial license, similar to the x264 project.[2][5]

History[edit]

x265 builds on source code from x264, an open source video encoder for the previous MPEG video coding standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The project has licensed the rights to use the x264 source code for those features that can be used with HEVC.[2] Development on x265 began in March 2013.[5]MulticoreWare made the source code for x265 publicly available on July 23, 2013.[3][4]

The x265 project was initially funded by a small group of charter licensee companies that direct the development requirements and receive commercial licenses to use x265 in their products without having to release their products under the GPL 2 license.[2]

In February 2014, x265 was integrated into the popular multimedia transcoding tool FFmpeg and its fork Libav.[6]

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Version 1.0 was completed in May 2014.[7]The stable version (2.0) was released on July 14th, 2016.[8]

Technical details[edit]

x265 source code is written in C++ and assembly.[2]

x265 supports the Main, Main 10, Main 12 and Main Still Picture profiles[9] of HEVC (including intra-only profiles), utilizing a bit depth of either 8 bits or 10 bits per sample YCbCr with 4:2:0, 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 chroma subsampling.[10] x265 supports most of the features of x264 including all rate control modes (Constant QP, Constant Rate Factor, Average Bit Rate, 2-pass or multi-pass and Video Buffering Verifier rate control).[11] Visual quality algorithms include CU-Tree (the successor to x264's macroblock-tree), adaptive quantization, b-pyramid, weighted prediction and psycho-visual optimizations (psy-rd and psy-rdoq). A fully lossless mode is also supported. Temporal scalability is supported, allowing for a video to be encoded into a base layer HEVC bitstream that is half the frame rate of the input video frame rate, and an enhancement layer that can be decoded along with the base layer to enable playback at the full frame rate.

In April 2015, at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, MulticoreWare demonstrated high quality real-time 4K 10-bit HEVC encoding[12] at frame rates in excess of 60 FPS on a dual Intel Xeon E5 v3 server, occupying only one standard rack unit.

Quality and efficiency[edit]

Judged by the objective quality metric VQM in 2015, x265 delivered video quality on par with the reference encoder of the royalty-free VP9 format that competes with HEVC.[13]A codec comparison from 2015 found x265 to be a leading HEVC implementation measured by SSIM metric.[14] In August 2016, Netflix published a comparison of x264, VP9, and x265 using video clips from 500 movies and TV shows using 6 different quality metrics and found that both VP9 and x265 have 40%–50% better quality at 1080p than x264. Netflix stated that with the VMAF metric (which closely mirrors human visual experience according to the author) x265 performed substantially (19% to 22%) better than VP9.[15]

Usage[edit]

x265 can be invoked as a command line application or integrated into another application through the application programming interface.[16][17]

Open source adopters[edit]

X264 X265 File Size

Open source software projects which utilize x265 for HEVC encoding

Size
  • Avidemux[18]
  • FFmpeg[19]
  • HandBrake[20]
  • Internet Friendly Media Encoder[21]
  • MeGUI[22]
  • OpenShot[23]
  • Shotcut[24]
  • Staxrip[25]
  • x265vfw[26]

Commercial applications[edit]

Commercial products that utilize x265 for HEVC encoding

  • BBright SLED-4K and SLED-HD Encoder[27]
  • Telestream Vantage Media Processing Platform[28]
  • TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works[29]
  • Sorenson Squeeze Desktop Pro and Squeeze Server[30]
  • x265 HEVC Upgrade[31]

References[edit]

  1. ^'multicoreware / x265 / source / doc / reST / Relasenotes.rst — Bitbucket'. bitbucket.org.
  2. ^ abcde'x265 Mission Statement'. Bitbucket. 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  3. ^ abJoel Hruska (2013-07-23). 'H.265 benchmarked: Does the next-generation video codec live up to expectations?'. ExtremeTech. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  4. ^ abChris Angelini (2013-07-23). 'Next-Gen Video Encoding: x265 Tackles HEVC/H.265'. Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  5. ^ ab'x265 Development Road Map'. Bitbucket. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  6. ^Volker Zota (heise online), 14. 2. 2014: Videokodierung: HEVC/H.265-Encoder hält Einzug bei FFmpeg und LibAV
  7. ^'multicoreware / x265 / Commits — Bitbucket'. bitbucket.org.
  8. ^'[x265] [ANN] x265 2.0 released'.
  9. ^'Command Line Options — x265 documentation'.
  10. ^'Command Line Options — x265 documentation'.
  11. ^'x265 Documentation — x265 documentation'.
  12. ^'MulticoreWare demonstrates high quality 4K 10-bit real-time HEVC video encoding with x265'. Design And Reuse.
  13. ^Jan Ozer, April 2015: The Great UHD Codec Debate: Google's VP9 Vs. HEVC/H.265
  14. ^Jan Ozer, November 9, 2015: Moscow State Releases First HEVC Comparison
  15. ^Ozer, Jan. 'Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient than VP9 - Streaming Media Magazine'. Streaming Media Magazine. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
  16. ^'x265 CLI Documentation'.
  17. ^'x265 API Documentation'.
  18. ^'Avidemux – News'.
  19. ^'General Documentation'.
  20. ^'HandBrake: Features'.
  21. ^'x265 GUI Encoder with Internet Friendly Media Encoder!'.
  22. ^berrinam. 'MeGUI'. SourceForge.
  23. ^'OpenShot'.
  24. ^'Shotcut'.
  25. ^'StaxRip'.
  26. ^'x265vfw'.
  27. ^'BBright – Ultra HD / 4K Video Products and Laser Light Sources'. BBright.
  28. ^'Video Workflow Automation Software – Vantage Workflow Features & Benefits – Telestream'.
  29. ^'TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 6'.
  30. ^'Squeeze Desktop Pro – Sorenson Media'. Sorenson Media.
  31. ^'x265 HEVC Upgrade'. x265.

X264 Vs X265 1080p

External links[edit]

  • Official website for the Open Source Project
  • Official commercial website for licensing and the x265 HEVC Upgrade application
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