Ahh, yeah that could be an issue. It takes my laptop like 11 hours to encode one of the Lord of the Rings Blu-ray. I also change the audio to eAC3 while I’m in there for better client support.
Ahh, yeah that could be an issue. It takes my laptop like 11 hours to encode one of the Lord of the Rings Blu-ray. I also change the audio to eAC3 while I’m in there for better client support.
There is a trade off between just getting more storage and reencoding. I enjoy seeing the results of the re-encodes, but it’s more cost effective to just get a larger hard drive.
You can play in handbrake with AV1 encoding to see how it goes. I think I set the compression to 36 or something.
Yeah, from the re-encodes I’ve done, I only noticed artifacts in clouds and the New Line Cinema intro to lord of the Rings
Playback has pretty wide support by now.
Yes, AV1 is the next big deal. You can compress the hell out of the video and it still looks near original. I’ve re-encode some of my locally ripped movies for fun to see how it looks and it’s really impressive.
Yeah, if the streaming providers ever switch over to AV1 that would be an interesting comparison.
Yeah, doesn’t everyone use a VPN in some form by now?
Yeah, I can’t find some kid shows, maybe I have the wrong provider.
I noticed you are having an issue finding a partial language of content, you could extract the audio track from the DVD and add it to the copy you find on the seas.
makeMkv first and handbrake to compress. When using handbrake make sure to pick video and audio formats that work for your clients. I recommend h265 and eAC3 audio.
I only rip rare movies from dvds. It’s not worth the time and effort to rip dvds with it is easy to get 1080p copies of the same movies. An example of a DVD I riped is Enchanted Adventure.
I went with Toshiba drives, but debating that decision. 😄
Nah, you need to build a PC or pickup a older server. I went with Synology and it ended up close to $1k with drives 😭
I think the subedit program can convert subtitles… I forget :(
Tailscale works nicely as well
Disable video transcoding for the account your client connects with. Then check the log to see why it needs to transcod it the video fails. Could be the bitrate limit. I’m not having issues and using the same client.
Same. However, I make sure transcoding is not needed for video on my clients.
I agree. There are a bunch of DIY server options with linux. You should go that route to save money.
Where you rocking the vcr+ codes or manually recording?