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Video Transcoding v0.12.0 Release Notes

  • Friday, October 14, 2016

    • 0️⃣ Revise the ratecontrol system and default target video bitrates in transcode-video so that output is smaller and transcoding is faster. Via #90.
      • Increase the value of vbv-bufsize to be twice that of vbv-maxrate, the target. This is much more likely to produce an output video bitrate nearer to that target.
      • Lower the targets to accomodate this new accuracy and avoid wasting bitrate and time on unneeded quality.
    • 🗄 Deprecate the --small and --small-video options in transcode-video.
    • ➕ Add a variation of the --target option with big and small arguments to transcode-video. The small macro provides output similar to, but still smaller than, the old --small-video option. The big macro provides output even larger than the old ratecontrol system and targets.
    • ✂ Remove unnecessary boundary checking of the target video bitrate in transcode-video.
    • Modify transcode-video so adding --handbrake-option encoder=x265 is all that is needed to enable experimental HEVC transcoding. Use this only with HandBrakeCLI nightly builds from September 29, 2016, or later.
    • ⚡️ Update the "README" document to:
      • Revise the default target video bitrates.
      • Remove all references to the --small option since it's now deprecated.
      • Add the Windows Subsystem for Linux as a possible installation platform. Via #89 from @JMoVS.
      • Replace visible HTML comments with zero-width spaces.
      • Tweak the description of how I use transcode-video. Yes, again.