Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Convert to HEVC

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] cosmos8188@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

Yep HEVC can suck one. AV1 is the format everyone wanted, media formats shouldnt have any loyalties tied to them

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[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 months ago

Naw it works without hardware encoding just takes a little longer. I just create a script that batches everything up and let it work.

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[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 months ago

I actually tested AV1 myself , ran a batch of 26 files on a 2014 laptop , worked great, used ffmpeg and libsvt-av1

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I would like to do this but I'm not confident I wouldn't turn the quality to shit when doing the reencode.

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[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 months ago

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.

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 months ago

I feel you. It took me five-six years to build up to that 16TB though. Also, it's not a competition! 😊

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

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)