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Whats your preferred codec? (lemmy.zip)
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I'm currently in the process of re-downloading everything on x265 because of the smaller files sizes. Whats do you guys think? Also has anybody experience with Tdarr?

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This. I actually went the opposite route to OP, replaced everything 265 to 264 to avoid playback issues. My content is played on many different devices so 265 simply won't cut it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    For me the math worked out that it was cheaper to get a nuc with quick sync than to pay for the extra storage h264 uses, it's less than half the bitrate (usually ~2Mbit for 1080 compared to 8+), I have 23TB of content and my Intel nuc power efficiently transcodes to h264 on demand if the device needs it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What kind of devices won't play x265? I've got some rather old hardware and it seems to work just fine on everything.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I sometimes stream from my 2014 ultrabook to my TV... never had a problem with x264, but some x265 encodings cut out/freeze/lag during scenes where a lot is happening (motionwise)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same, laptop from '15, TV from '09. If you're on linux what did you use to reencode, ffmpeg? Never even occurred to me I could do that lol.

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