{"id":84941,"date":"2020-01-20T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/?p=84941"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:07:31","slug":"enable-nvenc-hardware-encoding-in-handbrake-1398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/enable-nvenc-hardware-encoding-in-handbrake-1398.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable NVENC Hardware Encoding in HandBrake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, HandBrake, initially released on 24 August 2003 (14 years ago), has been regarded as the founder of a video processing program. The estimation of its users, from Windows\/macOS\/Linux, may have reached\u00a0billions, among which about 42% users speak highly of HandBrake\u00a0performance in 4K video transcoding, about 15% users gradually switch to HandBrake\u00a0alternatives and the rest still consider HandBrake\u00a0as their first choice if HandBrake\u00a0can decode and encode video to H264\/H265 at much faster speed. <\/p>\n<p >Therefore, to better meet\u00a0users' needs and improve users' experience, HandBrake\u00a0developer team overcomes every potential difficulty and eventually successfully makes HandBrake\u00a0support Intel QSV hardware acceleration to speed up video (esp. 4K UHD video) processing to a certain extent. <\/p>\n<div class=\"anchor-list-dark\">\n<ul class=\"pl40\">\n<li><a href=\"#part1\"><strong>Part 1: Does NVENC Encoding Available in HandBrake? <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part2\"><strong>Part 2: How to Enable NVENC Hardware Encoding in HandBrake? <br \/>\nPart 3: The Best HandBrake\u00a0Alternative to Encode video with NVENC Acceleration -- Leawo Prof.Media <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Extension\"><strong>Extension: About HandBrake\u00a0NVENC Encoding <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"part1\" class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Part 1: Does NVENC Encoding Available in HandBrake? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Therefore, the majority of HandBrake\u00a0users once again feel curious that does NVENC Encoding Available in HandBrake? Yet, there is still high likelihood that HandBrake\u00a0might absorb Nvidia NVENC in the near future to further accelerate Ultra HD video processing speed. In fact, support for the Nvidia Nvenc encoder is enabled in preferences on the video tab. If your system is not supported, the option will be disabled. <\/p>\n<p ><strong>Supported Hardware and Configurations<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n  According\u00a0to\u00a0HandBrake\u00a0documentation, NVENC encoder supports the following hardware and configurations: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"pl40\">\n<li>- Nvidia GeForce GTX Pascal (1050+) and RTX Turing (1650+, 2060+) series GPU or better <\/li>\n<li>- Nvidia Graphics Driver 418.81 or later <\/li>\n<li>- Windows 10 <\/li>\n<li>- Experimental Linux support is available in HandBrake&#8217;s command line interface <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p >Please note, these are not hard limits. Hardware encoding via Nvenc might work on older series GPUs and older operating systems, but this is not officially supported. <\/p>\n<p >Please note that only video encoding is performed by the hardware encoder. Every stage prior to and after video encoding including decoding, filters, audio\/video sync, audio encoding, muxing, etc., is performed by the CPU. As a result, it is normal to have high (even 100%) CPU utilisation during encodes.\u00a0As we learn that NVENC Encoding\u00a0is available in HandBrake, but how to enable NVENC hardware encoding in HandBrake? <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"part2\"class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Par<\/strong><strong>t 2:  How to Enable NVENC Hardware Encoding in HandBrake? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p >Obviously, HandBrake\u00a0users' request for\u00a0adding Nvidia NVENC support is finally met with the release of HandBrake\u00a01.2.0 Windows edition. Undoubtedly, they can leverage Nvidia NVENC GPU hardware-accelerated encoders to speed up H.264\/H.265 encoding process. And you will be surprised to find that HandBrake\u00a0runs\u00a0much faster with NVENC enabled than software transcoding.\u00a0Check out to learn how to enable NVENC hardware encoding in HandBrake\u00a0in detail. <\/p>\n<p ><strong>Step 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Now go to the website to download,\u00a0install\u00a0and launch\u00a0HandBrake\u00a01.2.0. Next, click on File under Source Selection and import a single video file. <\/p>\n<p >Note: Sometime, some\u00a0users may complain that they see an error message while launching HandBrake\u00a01.2.0: <br \/>\n  <em>HandBrake<\/em><em>.exe - This application could not be started.<\/em><br \/>\n  <em>This application requires one of the following versions of the .NET Framework:<\/em><br \/>\n  <em>.NETFramework, Version=v4.7.1<\/em><br \/>\n  <em>Do you want to install this .NET Framework version now?<\/em><\/p>\n<p >Therefore, to solve your problem, all you need to do is to\u00a0click Yes, download Microsoft .NET Framework from the popup page, and install it following the onscreen instructions. However, if you\u00a0cannot\u00a0install .NET Framework 4.7.1, mostly, it is owning to the incorrect\u00a0parameter. <\/p>\n<p ><strong>Step 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Then, you can specify which title and chapters you wish\u00a0to transcode, and select a HandBrake\u00a0preset based on your own needs. <\/p>\n<p ><strong>Step 3.<\/strong>\u00a0You can feel free to choose Video tab, click the drop-down icon of Video Codec, and then choose H.264 (Nvidia NVEnc) or H.265 (Nvidia NVEnc).\u00a0HandBrake\u00a0has provided\u00a0a lot of\u00a0options, so you can adjust them if you\u00a0need\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable-NVENC-Hardware-Encoding-in-HandBrake-1.png\"onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable-NVENC-Hardware-Encoding-in-HandBrake-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84953 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable-NVENC-Hardware-Encoding-in-HandBrake-1.png 655w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Enable-NVENC-Hardware-Encoding-in-HandBrake-1-300x195.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 655px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 655\/426;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p ><strong>Step 4.<\/strong>\u00a0Click Browse to specify the output file location and type a name for the output file. <\/p>\n<p ><strong>Step 5.<\/strong>\u00a0In the end, just hit the green Start Encode button, and then HandBrake\u00a0GPU encoding will start. Please be noted that NVENC GPU hardware acceleration is available in encoding only. Other portions like decoding and muxing are still handled by CPU. <\/p>\n<p >Though GPU encoding is undoubtedly faster than CPU\/software based encoding,\u00a0many HandBrake\u00a0users say that they have sacrificed size or quality for more speed. NVENC encoded files are always much larger than the software encoded versions of the same files.\u00a0Even worse, HandBrake\u00a0is a little complicated and it takes time to learn about the encoding process. If you need a more convenient and faster video converter to encode videos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/total-media-converter-ultimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Leawo Prof.Med<\/u><u>i<\/u><u>a<\/u><\/a>\u00a0will be a suitable choice. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"part3\"class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Part 3: The Best HandBrake\u00a0Alternative to Encode video with NVENC Acceleration -- Leawo Prof. Media <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Leawo Prof.Media is designed to offer the most straightforward solution to encode videos as fast as possible.\u00a0As a 10-in-1 total media converter suite, Leawo Prof. Media Ultra integrates 10 programs into 1, including HD Video Converter, Online Video Downloader, Blu-ray Ripper, Blu-ray Creator, Blu-ray Cinavia Removal, Blu-ray Copy, DVD Ripper, DVD Creator, DVD Copy, Photo Maker and Photo to DVD\/Blu-ray Burner.\u00a0Besides, Leawo Prof. Media support 180+ video and audio formats, and could convert Blu-ray, DVD, video, audio and ISO image files with high quality, supporting 1080P and even 4K video output, no quality loss in video and audio.\u00a0Last but not least, this wonderful tool can adjust video and audio parameters of output files, including video codec, quality, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, audio codec, audio bit rate, sample rate, channel, etc. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mt10\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/downloads\/total-media-converter-ultimate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/images\/icon\/Trial_win1.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/downloads\/total-media-converter-ultimate-mac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/images\/icon\/Trial_mac1.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLearn the steps to encode videos fast with Leawo Prof.Media. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leawo-Prof.Media-2.png\"onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leawo-Prof.Media-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84956 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leawo-Prof.Media-2.png 770w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leawo-Prof.Media-2-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Leawo-Prof.Media-2-768x508.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/509;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>  Before start, please download and install the software, Leawo Prof.Media\u00a0on PC. If you need a Mac version for Leawo Prof.Media, you can also download it from the website. <\/p>\n<p >Step1. After launching Leawo Prof. Media Ultra, you can click the big Convert button to enter the &quot;Convert&quot; module panel (or click either Video Converter, Blu-ray Ripper or DVD Ripper under the Home interface). Depending on which you want to convert, you have different options in the main interface. <\/p>\n<p >Step 2. Directly drag and drop the videos you want to convert in the interface. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drag-and-drop-the-videos-3.png\"onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drag-and-drop-the-videos-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"517\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84955 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drag-and-drop-the-videos-3.png 782w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drag-and-drop-the-videos-3-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drag-and-drop-the-videos-3-768x508.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 782px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 782\/517;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>  Setp 3. Next to the &quot;Add Photo&quot; button, you would see a clickable box (displayed in &quot;MP4 Video&quot; by default), by clicking which you could see a drop-down box. On the drop-down box, 3 sub-tab includes &quot;Edit&quot;, &quot;Change&quot; and &quot;Apply to All&quot;. Click &#8220;Change&#8221;\u00a0button to enter the &quot;Profile&quot; panel, where you could select a profile as output format. Various video\/audio formats and device models are available for selection, like H.265 MP4, 4K MKV, HD MP4, HD AVI, MOV, iPhone 6s, iPad Air, etc. The Hardware Acceleration feature is enabled by default. <\/p>\n<p >Step 4. After profile settings, go back to the &quot;Convert&quot; interface, on which you need to click the green &#8220;Convert&#8221;\u00a0button to set output directory for saving the output files. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-output-directory-4.png\"onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-output-directory-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84957 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-output-directory-4.png 776w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-output-directory-4-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/set-output-directory-4-768x508.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 776px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 776\/513;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>  Step 5. In the end, click the &#8220;Convert&#8221;\u00a0button at the bottom of sidebar to start conversion process. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Convert-5-1.png\"onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Convert-5-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84954 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Convert-5-1.png 781w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Convert-5-1-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Convert-5-1-768x504.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 781px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 781\/513;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>  Above is how the best HandBrake\u00a0alternative to encode video with NVENC Acceleration -- Leawo Prof.Media\u00a0works. What is more, the internal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/total-media-converter-ultimate\/convert-2d-to-3d.html\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><u>2D to 3D converter<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"#t\" ><\/a>\u00a0is available under both Convert and Burn modules. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"Extension\" class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Extension: About HandBrake\u00a0NVENC Encoding <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In computers, encoding is the process of putting a sequence of characters (letters, numbers, punctuation, and certain symbols) into a specialized format for efficient transmission or storage.\u00a0And Nvidia NVENC is a feature in its graphics cards that performs video encoding, offloading this compute-intensive task from the CPU. It is reported that the encoder is supported in many streaming and recording programs, such as Wirecast, Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and Bandicam, and also works with Share game capture, which is included in Nvidia's GeForce Experience software. As\u00a0a result, they can leverage Nvidia NVENC GPU hardware-accelerated encoders to speed up H.264\/H.265 encoding process. Therefore, you'll find that HandBrake\u00a0will run much faster with NVENC enabled than software transcoding. <\/p>\n<p >This article has explained the detailed steps of how to enable NVENC hardware encoding in HandBrake\u00a0and also recommend you the Best HandBrake\u00a0alternative to encode video with NVENC acceleration -- Leawo Prof.Media. You can choose one based on your needs. 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The estimation of its users, from Windows\/macOS\/Linux, may have reached\u00a0billions, among which about 42% users &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/enable-nvenc-hardware-encoding-in-handbrake-1398.html\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,336,337,338,220,244,242,463],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-84941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-convert-audio","category-convert-blu-ray","category-convert-dvd","category-converter-alternatives","category-dvd-software","category-dvd-to-video","category-handbrake-tips","tag-prof-media"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":10175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124291,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84941\/revisions\/124291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}