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RIP my storage array
Convert to HEVC
I went all to AV1 last year. Enough stuff supports it, and realtime transcoding on a (relatively cheap) Arc GPU works well enough.
AV1 is superior enough for both size and visual fidelity, that it's worth the slightly extra encoding time. But absolutely not if you don't have HW encoding.
Naw it works without hardware encoding just takes a little longer. I just create a script that batches everything up and let it work.
Yep HEVC can suck one. AV1 is the format everyone wanted, media formats shouldnt have any loyalties tied to them
I actually tested AV1 myself , ran a batch of 26 files on a 2014 laptop , worked great, used ffmpeg and libsvt-av1
I would like to do this but I'm not confident I wouldn't turn the quality to shit when doing the reencode.
You won’t if you just create copy first then o ly use like 30 sec clips and compare them. Look at CRF and preset modes. I use ffmpeg but hand-brake is also a good frontend if you don’t like cli.
Aye, there's the rub. Only heavy effects stuff needs the big files now, but later there may be regrets (or instant enhancement, who's to know)
No doubt. 🥲 Fortunately, I have a limited repertoire of movies and series that I simply watch over and over again without ever getting tired of them. 🤣 Still circa 16TB though.
Love how people talk about stuff like 16TB being hardly anything and here we are struggling on 4TB cause storage has always been expensive in this country and is currently almost completely unaffordable.
I feel you. It took me five-six years to build up to that 16TB though. Also, it's not a competition! 😊
On ~~trash~~American upload speeds?
TW: extremely intimate description of the speeds at which my uploads and downloads collectively run
1000BASE‑TI know it's no excuse, but I'm in the EU. 🫡
That's actually not especially good in the EU as far as I can tell (also in the EU, have the same, €15 a month).
That said, it's pretty easy and cheap to get the rest of one's setup (router, Ethernet cables, the actual torrent machine) with Gigabit-Ethernet so that it all actual works at 1Gbps end-to-end but costs a bit more to upgrade one's internal network and download machines (I use a MiniPC next to the router) to go above that - everything pretty much supports 1Gbps by default nowadays, whilst only some stuff supports 2.5Gbps, and you definitely have to pay quite a bit extra for 10Gbps.
The kit I had for years already supported Gigabit Ethernet all the way and I would need newer kit to really use properly a fibre Internet connection above 1Gbps, which is why I personally did not go for the 2.5Gbps or even 10Gbps (the latter would be €45/month). That and downloading an x265 1080p torrent of a 1h episode of a TV series from a popular public tracker taking between 30s and a minute is good enough for me and I don't really want to spend more money to bring that down to 10-20s or less.
I was replying to somebody that was complaining about shitty US speeds.😅
And now I will reply to you. 😎
I live in a shithole of a town whose buildings are lined with CAT5 copper cables. Those reach 10 Gbps up to 55 meters with good quality active equipment (switches, repeaters, OLTs), which is the next problem: in this town, the municipality owns the fiber and they have "better" things to spend their money on than changing the residential equipment to be 10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006 compatible. My ISP of course takes advantage of the situation and overcharges me for my measly 1 Gbps but hey... At least they gave me a public IP for free 🤣
UPC (the Slovak one) sucks. Constantly throttling for no reason. Had to switch to Starlink, since there was not other operator providing better speeds.
And yeah, I know who is behind it, but it was worth it. Now Stremio works great and without lag.
Does one connect directly to a satellite with a parabolic antenna or the likes?
TLDR: No, you need to use their router.
Here's the full manual in case I didn't explain it properly: https://starlink.com/public-files/installation_guide_standard_kit.pdf
Interesting. So maybe they have signal receiving stations placed out here and there to which the router connects?
I have multigig in my area. I currently pay for 8 gig but my provider sells 15 gig up/down. I'm sure there are plenty of rural areas with awful speed but I suspect that's the same anywhere in the world, not just America.
For series? Are you made of money?
I wish. I was actually just trying to make a meme/joke. 🤣 While I do try to find the best quality of everything, with series I tend to do 1080p bluray remuxes.
Gotta be careful, a lot of those top-end releases are just lightly touched upscales. No space for bloat in this economy!
Hear hear! I usually do some research into how the media was intended to look by the directors. And old school stuff, I of course avoid having in 4K and whatnot.
I watched some tube-u-mentary a couple of weeks ago that talked about 1080 vs 4k. A shocking amount of fresh content is shot in 2k, editied tand they goes 4k only when they apply the SFX.
THEN, i started looking at 3D releases, there was a bunch of new stuff, it appears it's all virtual 3D :(