Aquaman (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477834/

Plot summary: Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.

Video: HEVC (x265) 5000 kb/s (VBR) Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), 1536 kb/s (eng) Subtitles: Eng, Fre, Por, Spa, Swe

"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

Command used to extract core DTS track, and remux: ffmpeg -i "/run/media/lucifer/0d6b70fa-0c49-47d6-84c1-3f8509d52b58/Torrents/Aquaman.2018.IMAX.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos-FGT/Aquaman.2018.IMAX.1080p.BluRay.REMUX.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos-FGT.mkv" -metadata title="" -map 0:v -map 0:5 -map 0:s? -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:s copy "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.REMUX.mkv"

Command used to encode: HandBrakeCLI --format av_mkv --markers --encoder x265_10bit --encoder-preset slow --encoder-tune grain --vb 5000 --two-pass --vfr --aencoder copy:dts -i "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.REMUX.mkv" -o "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.mkv" 2> >(tee "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Info/Aquaman.2018_HandBrake_log.txt")

Commands used to merge with subtitles: mkvmerge --title "" -o "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.TMP-4201-26107.mkv" "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.mkv" --no-video --no-audio --no-chapters "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.REMUX.mkv"

mv "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.TMP-4201-26107.mkv" "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.mkv"

mkvmerge -o "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS-2349-19442.mkv" --default-track-flag "2:0" --default-track-flag "3:0" --default-track-flag "4:1" --default-track-flag "5:0" --default-track-flag "6:0" --default-track-flag "7:0" --default-track-flag "8:0" --default-track-flag "9:0" --default-track-flag "10:0" "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS.mkv" --language "0:eng" --default-track-flag "0:0" "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Subs/eng-tmp-22314-16020.mkv" --language "0:swe" --default-track-flag "0:0" "/run/media/lucifer/7b12e3a8-8802-4e3e-b782-fe94e5c57137/rips/Aquaman.2018.1080p.BluRay.x265.DTS/Subs/swe-tmp-25415-5656.mkv"

PS: This is an alright movie IMHO, despite Amber Heard being a lying conniving borderline bitch who abused Top G Johnny Depp. She tried to ruin his career. Make sure to never pay for this movie, or any movie she's in. James Wan is a great director and it's sad that he gets caught in the crossfire, but it is what it is. I'm curious about Aquaman 2, and what state it will be in. Will they have cut Amber from the movie completely? She's the reason the movie's been delayed. To be continued