![]() ![]() One very simple immutable rule: With ANY lossy compressor, you LOSE some quality. But it's not a transition I'll be making anytime soon. If I wanted to pause frames and study them in detail - count the leaves on a tree, etc. Ageing eyes may contribute to that, but the simple fact is DVDs are plenty "good enough". Personally, I haven't bothered to switch my collection of 4000+ movies from DVD to BluRay, as I just don't see much difference in the visual quality on my 70" screen. I know one guy with 2 100TB arrays (and growing). That's simply not all that much storage these days. Problem with HEVC is the playback.after a few tests i can tell you that plex server on my gaming rig (i5 3570k) is able to transcode a 1080p hevc movie to my ipad with cpu between 25%-95%, so you need a capable server.Įven 1000 BluRays would only need 40TB (at 40GB each). The same with movies : you can compress a 12-15 gb h264 movie with near same quality in 5-6 gb. ![]() Not a big saving with a few series but a couple of big hard drive if you have a lot. I'm now experimenting with HEVC encoding and for example a 2 gb tv-series episode in 720p quality is compressed to like 750 mb. I like to keep my tv-series in 720p (except my favourite ones like Band of Brothers or The Pacific) but they are taking too much space anyway. But if you are like me with 500 movies and hundreds of tv-series, i say compress everything to x264 with crf 19-20 slow/slowest quality and you are set. So, if you have like 50 bluray that is not a problem and i can suggest you keep the bluray as it is with makemkv. Personally with a Samsung lcd 55 inch tv seen 3 m away i cannot see the difference between a full bluray backup and a 10-12 gb mkv compressed one. But I still compress everything down to 4.7GB (if the source is a DVD that's already that size, then I don't do any further compression). even though it's been years since I actually stored the result on a DVD. Personally, I re-render everything so it will fit on a single 4.7GB DVD. The question isn't whether or not your movies are compressed - it's whether or not you re-render them with a different compressor to use less space. And at $30/TB those costs are 40% lower.Īs already noted, however, the question is a bit incorrect => ALL movies are significantly compressed already on the DVD or BluRay media you get them on. so a 50GB uncompressed BluRay rip costs $1 a 10GB MKV costs about 20 cents. Even at $50/TB, that's only $1 for 50GB of storage. Some disks are as low as $30/TB, the superb WD Reds are around $40/TB, and even WD Blacks are less than $50/TB. Storage is indeed VERY inexpensive these days. But I am hoping the 5-10GB blurays are ok. I know my 700MB Rips wont cut it down there. I have dreams of building a theater in the basement. Currently I have a ~8TB array with about 3TB free. PS.Plexwatch claims I have ~1000 movie titles and 80 TV shows totaling over 8,000 episodes. My question to everyone is, how do you handle compression? My belief is that space is just too expensive for every movie to be uncompressed. Lately I have been contemplating moving to fully uncompressed ~40GB rips for popular movies, and classics.Lethal Weapon, Wizard of Oz, Back to the future. Closer to 3GB for kids movies, and less popular titles, while 10GBs are for mainstream movies like Marvel. My average MKV is now between 3 and 10GB per movie. While space still is not cheap, scalability and larger TVs has led me to relax my compression standards and move to Blurays. ![]() So, I compressed all of my DVDs using AutoGK down to about 700MB AVIs and Later MP4s. When I built my first Media Server (a windows box with a raid 1), space was at a premium. ![]()
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