A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol (2009)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067106/

Plot summary:
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Video: HEVC 2500 kb/s
Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), 1536 kb/s
Subtitles: Eng, Ara, Chi, Est, Fre, Kor, Lav, Lit, Pol, Por, Rus, Spa, Swe, Tha, Ukr, Vie

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"High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard, designed as a successor to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10). In comparison to AVC, HEVC offers from 25% to 50% better data compression at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding

10-bit color depth should ALWAYS be used when encoding HEVC (x265), because it saves bandwidth and results in higher quality per bitrate. Even if the source is only 8-bit, like regular BluRays are, 10-bit encoding should be used for the reasons stated. Regular BluRays are encoded in H264, not H265 (HEVC). There's a new disc format called "Ultra HD Blu-ray" ("4K Ultra HD"), which is encoded in H265, with 4K resolution. Unless the source of an encode is this new format, it's in 8-bit color depth.

"... encoding pictures using 10-bit processing always saves bandwidth compared to 8-bit processing, whatever the source pixel bit depth."
http://x264.nl/x264/10bit_02-ateme-why_does_10bit_save_bandwidth.pdf

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Commands used to encode:

* Extract core DTS track from DTS-HD MA *

ffmpeg -i A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.Blu-ray.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.-.KRaLiMaRKo.mkv -map 0:1 -bsf:a dca_core -c:a copy ~/TS-Core.dts

* Merge the DTS track with the M2TS (without all its audio tracks) *

mkvmerge -o ~/'A.Christmas.Carol.2009.REMUX.mkv' --no-audio A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.Blu-ray.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.-.KRaLiMaRKo.mkv ~/TS-Core.dts

* Encode with HandBrake *

time HandBrakeCLI --format av_mkv --markers --encoder x265_10bit --encoder-preset slow --vb 2500 --two-pass --vfr --aencoder copy:dts --all-subtitles -i ~/'A.Christmas.Carol.2009.REMUX.mkv' -o ~/'A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS.mkv'

* Merge with SRT subtitles *

mkvmerge --default-track 2 -o A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS-LiNUX.mkv A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS.mkv --language 0:eng A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS-LiNUX.srt --track-name 0:'English [SDH]' A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS-LiNUX_SDH.srt --language 0:swe A.Christmas.Carol.2009.1080p.BluRay.HEVC.DTS-LiNUX_swe.srt