No, because i did it over long time since I encoded only during the day hours and a few episodes at a time.

I can say that I fit a good 30% more episodes in the same space, but at the same time I also have added movies and reduces sizes too, so hard to tell reasonably.

I can say that all my collection was mostly h264 before.

Maybe I have a different point of view here, but I have actively converted all my TV series to AV1 and will probably to the same to most of my movies.

The space saving is huge, and the quality is identical to my eyes and hardware. True that storage is cheaper than ever, but this is not a reason valid to waste it anyway.

I have only 6TB of storage for my media and the power needed to run additional disks would only be waste on the long run, and so buying new bogger disks would be a waste for stuff I don’t wantch often (more like hoarding than…).

So AV1 is the way. Software encoding is the best quality, I have heard, rather than hardware encoding. As for playback, I have a fire stick with AV1 support that works flawlessly, so.

Edit: I have FV at home, so converting to AV1 during daylight is actually free for me.

Italian content? Some, but not much. Way less that torrents.

I speak from experience.

For anybody waiting for invites: i have up and just waited until Black Friday deals and openings: you need to head to “the other site” and watch the deals and opening times and you can get anything you want.

Also, invites are not free: you still need to pay the subscription!

They get DMCA’d regularly and content get removed on Usenet as well. But the fact that they have to report literally thousands of individual files every time make it slow and inefficient. People will just reload the same item many times and it’s always there.

Each copy, each single file in which the copy is split needs to be identified and asked for removal. Compared to torrents, it’s a long and complex task.

As codecs go, I love AV1. More and more hardware support everywhere, it seems more future proof than h265 even at this point.

Rip at native DVD resolution and don’t forget ALL the audio tracks, as many English users always forget about the rest of the world.

It’s dead to me too then. Useless crap. Maybe the best hardware and software, but still closed crap.

Can you unlock them easily and still have valid warranty as well? That would be a great point

Yes, I am a maintainer for a 4 years old device, and I would love to be able to buy it new today! New battery and all.

Xiaomi. Or poco, redmi… Same stuff. For 200 bucks you get awesome phones and you can usually always remove stock and install LineageOS. They are all freely uockable and still under warranty after that.

Get a model near its end of market life, buy new the oldest you can find… Unlock, install LineageOS, enjoy.

I bought my Poco X3 NFC for 160€ 4 years ago and still rocks today with LineageOS 21 (Android 14).

(It usually take 6 months to 1 year for each new model to get LineageOS support, so don’t buy the latest model Also worth looking if there is official support on LineageOS before buy, or at least some unofficial ports).

Usenet is fast and very convenient, but very little content in my language, so… Not sure will renew subscriptions when they expire.

Check this wiki, specially the torrebt and Usenet pages… Then you can wither follow the practical installation pages or ignore and find some docker only guides.

Https://wiki.gardiol.org

You have the older one then

Mine does av1… So?

Amazon firestick pro.

You need two instances of radarr

Go Av1, much better support: all recent amazon fire sticks support it, I am am using one and loving it.

Jellyfin ofc

H264 is great, but h265 is basically feels like a dead end. Av1 instead is picking up lots of steam. I am betting on it instead of h265.

Not really, I don’t do GPU encoding anyway so can’t say first person.

But everybody says so on all forums so maybe its true.

I got an amazon fire stick, all the new ones support av1 and all android devices from A14 must support av1 too.

On PC vlc plays it just fine too.

Indeed, but YMMV and to me quality is still good if source was not a remix but a top quality encoding