I have used handbrake on a 40GB video. I only have choosed mp4 format and launched the work. After few hours of work, I obtain a 2GB video, with same quality...
How is it possible ? (I ask it before made this change on all my big videos...)
Mediainfo output for 40GB video :
General
Unique ID : 238228999256890016546824715230238210616 (0xB3393C800F190F03AD96939C4A7BFA38)
Complete name : C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\Inception.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 30.9 GiB
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 29.9 Mb/s
Movie name : Inception 2010 Blu-ray Remux 1080p VC-1 DTS-HD MA 5.1-HomeTheater
Encoded date : UTC 2017-09-03 16:37:28
Writing application : mkvmerge v14.0.0 ('Flow') 64bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.4 + libmatroska v1.4.5
Video
ID : 1
Format : VC-1
Format profile : Advanced@L3
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate : 24.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.483
Stream size : 24.8 GiB (80%)
Title : VC-1 / 24014 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / Advanced Profile 3
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS XLL
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 3 689 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 3.82 GiB (12%)
Title : DTS-HD MA / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3689 kbps / 24-bit
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 4
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 678 MiB (2%)
Title : VFF AC3 5.1
Language : French
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #3
ID : 5
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.56 GiB (5%)
Title : VO DTS 5.1
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Text #1
ID : 3
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 2 h 27 min
Bit rate : 32.7 kb/s
Count of elements : 3482
Stream size : 34.4 MiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Text #2
ID : 6
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 26 min
Bit rate : 0 b/s
Count of elements : 5
Stream size : 111 Bytes (0%)
Title : Forces
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes
Text #3
ID : 7
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 2 h 26 min
Bit rate : 46 b/s
Count of elements : 1741
Stream size : 50.2 KiB (0%)
Title : Complets
Language : French
Default : No
Forced : No
Mediainfo output for 2GB video :
General
Complete name : C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\Inception-1.m4v
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 2.84 GiB
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Overall bit rate : 2 746 kb/s
Movie name : Inception 2010 Blu-ray Remux 1080p VC-1 DTS-HD MA 5.1-HomeTheater
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20
Writing application : HandBrake 1.3.2 2020050300
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate : 2 579 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Minimum frame rate : 23.974 FPS
Maximum frame rate : 23.981 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.070
Stream size : 2.67 GiB (94%)
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2935 545de2f
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=30 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=20000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 2 h 28 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 161 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 170 MiB (6%)
Title : DTS-HD MA / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3689 kbps / 24-bit
Language : English
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-14 09:28:20