this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
1213 points (98.3% liked)

Greentext

4623 readers
2025 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Literally the only thing missing is full migration to H265 or AV1 with a solid bitrate.

It's still a bit inconsistent due to hardware acceleration capabilities and final file size targets.

Most torrents are too compressed or too huge.

Luckily bandwidth and storage is cheaper than ever, so going for full size quality rips is viable for many.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Solid bitrate? I used 400 kb/s AV1 constant bitrate for HD anime, 750 for HD realfilm, results in 300 MB and 500 MB files for 2 hours video, no artifacts. Why does Handbrake default to 6000 kb/s?

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Once Intel ARC cards are supported natively in UnRaid, I'll be transcoding everything to AV1.

Hardware encoding for AV1 is really all that has been missing for it to be widely used for homelab setups.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To someone not knowing anything, how big a deal is the difference?

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Super oversimplified, but take an imaginary 1GB video file and it will compress roughly to the size below with minimal visual degradation.

H.264 -> H.265 -> AV1

1GB -> 600MB -> 350MB