I know there have been a few discussions here about the ideal settings for Handbrake. I've been messing around with the different options in the software to see what various results are produced.
My goal is to preserve the exact (or as close as possible) quality to the source DVD.
I also want any forced subtitles to default on WITHOUT asking Handbrake to burn them in. I have been able to successfully make this happen when playing the output file with VLC Media Player but Plex doesn't recognize the "Default" command.
As of right now I'm using VBR - 4000kbps Average - 2 Pass Encoding - Placebo speed - Film profile. Audio is always AC3 passthrough.
To encode one 2 hour movie with these settings using an Intel Xeon processor that has a 10000+ benchmark rating, it takes 24 hours.... That's a little longer than I would like.
So I thought I would see if anyone else has tried to accomplish this and what settings you use.
File size is not an issue. Hard drives are cheap.