H265ize

Overview

h265ize is a fire and forget weapon. A nodejs utility utilizing ffmpeg to encode large quantities of videos with the hevc codec. For more information visit ayrton.sparling.us.

if you want to create the hvec file alongside your input file, put in the parent directory of your input For example: if your input is in /mnt/user/cache/medialib/mymedia/ set your output to /mnt/user/cache/medialib/

Runtime arguments

Privileged: false

Template configuration

temp DirectoryPathrw

This is the mnt directory of your unraid server<br>Container path: /mnt

Target: /mnt
Default: /mnt

mnt DirectoryPathrw

This is the temp storage directory to store your current conversion<br>Container path: /tmp

Target: /tmp
Default: /mnt/user/h265ize/temp

Output DirectoryVariable

The destination folder where you want your re-encoded video to be (recomended to be the parent directory of your input if you are planning to replace your source)

Target: output
Default: /mnt/user/h265ize/output

Input DirectoryVariable

The source folder that contain video files you want to re-encode

Target: input
Default: /mnt/user/h265ize/input

Quantization ParameterVariable

Quantization Parameter, read the h265 docs for more info

Target: qp
Default: 19

Output FormatVariable

mp4,mkv or m4v

Target: format
Default: mp4

Quality PresetVariable

ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo | https://x265.readthedocs.io/en/default/presets.html for more info

Target: preset
Default: fast

Links

Template Support Registry Project

Details

Repository

ghcr.io/siwatinc/h265ize

Registry

https://github.com/SiwatINC/h265ize_unraid/pkgs/container/h265ize

Last Updated2026-05-31

First Seen2021-08-24

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