I have an extensive movie/tv show library. Been collecting for years and is a mixed bag of media types. I would like to convert all to h265 or something similar to try and conserve space. Currently my media is sitting at around 30TB’s I know from a previous post that is not as significant as some others but converting one by one would be a nightmarish undertaking. I am hoping someone has a cli script to do the conversion.
I am currently using radarr, sonarr, lidarr and readarr for my media I know lidarr and readarr are dead and am looking for an alernative either for those or the full stack. I would also like to perform the conversion of media from the downloaded format to what is suggested to the best format.
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I’ll just leave this here https://locatarr.github.io/
I have no experience using it https://home.tdarr.io/
Internet people say that if you reencode the movies, you will lose information and sacrifice quality. I do not know if it is noticable! It is probably visible on a large screen and definitely not on a small one. Like always: shit in, shit out.
You should always use the best source possible. If you don’t have it, maybe someone who has it should do it and not you. I would wait for this person to do it and redownload it once it is available.
To me it just makes more sense that the person creating the 264/265 video does it instead of all the guys who just downloaded it. It’s also better for the environment if only one person does it.
265 is not the future gold standard anymore but av1 is. If you are to do it, go for av1 but make sure all your devices can play it natively.
Lidarr ain’t dead.
They juat don’t have too much time to fix the metadata issue.
Jesus folks. Have some patience with devs donating their free time after work to fix your little media addiction.
If they arent fast enough for you, do it manually or use another program…I never stopped using it and just got an update today or yesterday for it. I was going on what was posted here. I never meant to start any trouble.
It’s just what was sad that irked me.
No offense taken (and hopefully non given). I hope you continue enjoying this hobby :)
The question is why do you want to convert them?
If you use something like JellyFin as your media server and client, it will transcode them as you watch them. If you’re on your phone using crappy WiFi, it will adapt the bitrate down automatically. If you’re at home using a projector connected by Ethernet, you’ll get the original file.
If you think you’re running out of space, it’s often easier and cheaper to buy more HDDs. H265 and modern audio codec will save you a maximum of 50%. For about £200 you can get a 15TB HDD.
It is not necessarily about saving space so much as it is about uniformity. And yes my server is beefy but you get 3 or 4 people all transcoding at the sane time and that beefy server will choke. As I have said I have been collecting for many years with a very large mixed bag of codecs I am just trying to clean up the mess that is my media.
OK, but why do you care about uniformity? If it’s just some OCD-adjacent urge - that’s fine; do what makes you happy.
But from a technical point of view, VLC will play back no matter what the codec and compression level.
Hell, I’ve found ripping a DVD to MKV results in a 3-5gb file.
Then converting that MKV using handbrake, I can bring the size down as much as 75%. When you’re talking about a thousand videos, that adds up.
TV series (especially older stuff) I can consistently reduce 80%+. This makes a real difference for shows that were on for 10 years.
And these all look fine on a 65" TV from 6’ away. Why store more if I don’t have to?
Ripping straight from physical to media is just the remuxing process.
What you are doing is called an encode.
It can be good. But not as original as the original.It’s like saying an MP3 is as good as a FLAC…
It’s not as good as the original, but again, you can’t tell the difference on a 65" TV, especially with old TV shows that are 4:3
- This comment is 6 months old xD Let it die in peace
- Never said it’s unwatchable. But you will loose detail.
I am usually watching encodes myself as remuxes are way too size-heavy for my liking. Only special movies get the remux quality treatment.
Whats more important: Preserving the better part of the bitrate. Crus it too much and you have Netflix at home :p
