Common Handbrake H.265/HEVC Encoding Failures & Solutions

Undoubtedly, the release of Handbrake 10.0 makes the words of “Handbrake H.265” become the hot search in a very long time since Handbrake updated its encoders like H.265 and VP8. Most of people are curious of video quality and size about the output H.265 encoded video. After doing many experiments, some people get their wanted results while others encounter various complex problems like Handbrake can’t convert H.264 to H.265, the converted H.265 video won’t play, etc. Next, we begin to explore these H.265/HEVC puzzles and solutions.

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Handbrake H.265/HEVC Encoding Common Puzzles and Solutions

1. “I downloaded the latest version of H.265 encoder Handbrake which includes both H.264 & H.265 video encoding and try to run an MKV file for comparing the difference. It is true that the size of H.265 encoded video is the half of H.264 video. But, the transcoded H.265 video can’t play on any video players including VLC and QuickTime. Is there something wrong? Can someone help me?”

Method: update your media player (VLC) or download the professional H.265 player (X265, DivX, 5KPlayer, etc). As is known to all, H.265 is still a relatively new codec and it will be regarded as the mainstream video codec in the near future because of its smashing function on video compression. Besides, the old version VLC or ordinary video players don’t support playing HEVC codec video. Thus, to avoid coming across “Handbrake H.265 decoding video can’t play” suchlike playback issues, you’d better try to update your installed VLC player to 2.2.0 version released on Feb 27, 2015. What’s more, 5KPlayer is recommended to download, which can effortlessly play H.265/HEVC 4K/8K video files on both Windows PC (Windows 10) and Mac OS (El Capitan) without losing video quality. Free, no malware/virus.

2. “It takes me much time to encode H.265 video with Handbrake. Is there any practical H.265 video encoder or HEVC converter recommendation? BTW, I also don’t want to come up against any Handbrake H.265 playback issue. Thanks in advance.”

Method: download Handbrake alternative (video converter) to encode H.265 video file. Definitely, people will find that their H.265 codec videos will take many times longer than before. But they still want to transcode the stored large size H.264 video to H.265 for reducing the file size of their video library or releasing mobile devices (tablets and phones) space. In addition, you only can choose H.265 codec MP4 container as the target video format in Handbrake because MP4 container doesn’t playback in the H.265 build of VLC. To be frank, you need a fast and functional H.265 converter instead of Handbrake.

Here, we introduce MacX Video Converter Pro to you. Serving as the best alternative to Handbrake, it can solve all of Handbrake H.265 encoding & decoding problems. To be specific, this H.265 video converter for Mac is capable of convert any H.264, MPEG4 or other codec videos to H.265/HEVC codec video and compress/convert 4K/8k H.265 videos to 1080p/720P HD H.264 MP2, AVI, FLV, MOV and more video formats with 83X faster speed and zero quality loss. Thus, you can put many latest movies on you iPhone iPad Android for playback on the move.

How to Use Handbrake H.265 Alternative to Encode H.265/HEVC Videos

Step 1: Free download this HEVC/H.265 decoder & encoder on your Mac; if you are a Windows user, you should head to Windows version of H.265 video converter. Launch this stellar HEVC video converter and click “+ Video” button to load the video file you want to convert.

Step 2: Go to the output profile to choose “HEVC Video” under category “PC General Video” as the output video format.

Step 3: Set a destination folder to store the converted H.265/HEVC video file.

Step 4: Hit “RUN” button to start the H.265 video converting.

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