2026-10-05 16:50 UTC
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@Eldritch@piefed.world 2026-10-05 16:57
Bigger size is usually better. Unfortunately an encoding is only as good as the person who did it. There’s any number of filtering or higher quality settings that can be used. But people often avoid to save time. So you’re better off to find groups or individuals who is work you like. And sticking with that. On Modern CPUs you can rip through high def video faster than real-time speed if you set the quality low enough. And the bitrate High enough. But an experienced encoder knows the combination of filtering and settings to use to bring out the maximum visual quality with minimal file size. And when it comes to that I tend to do all my own encodings.
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@FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2026-10-05 17:04
File size doesn’t equal quality e.g. h265 encoded titles usually take less space than h264 encoded titles and the quality is imho better. For example from my ow collection (ripped from my own discs) Dune 2021 Part 1 1080p 5.2 GB h265 encoded. The 20+ GB files are typically not re-encoded bluray (AVC/VC-1) or 4k releases. For a proper 1080p release with bluray audio expect anything from ~5GB up.
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@drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2026-10-05 16:57
> Who are y’alls downloading 20+GB movies? > Any shortcuts for getting rich blacks for space scenes? The rich blacks are in the 20+GB movies.
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@freebee@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-05 17:56
Depends on your TV, taste, budget. A good movie at 480p can be watchable. A good movie at 720p is usually very fine for me. 1080p is my upper limit. Ik have a small TV. Resolution doesn’t matter all that much if your TV isn’t 2 meters wide. Small files with high resolution are very strongly compressed. Some devices might struggle with playing them causing lags or difficult to fast forward or backward etc. That would be more annoying to me than a lowish resolution. Also depends who ripped it (did they know what they were doing?) and from which source. Webdl or DVD sourced are normally very watchable in lower resolutions if ripped by skilled people.
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@ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 2026-10-05 18:19
I have a handful of quality levels I target, for most movies I target 1080p, with a size no more than 2.5gb/hour, as I don’t really need super HD4K Mr.Bean, but then I also have quality profiles ranging all the way up to. 4k 20gb/hour for movies that are worth the storage space. Since storage is so expensive, and I’m basically hardlocked at 24TB of storage for the foreseeable future, I may even decrease my “standard” quality profile to save space going forward.
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@Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2026-10-05 18:20
I’m pirating video because they won’t let me legally download a bluray without tons of drm. I don’t want to lose any quality and even with these ridiculously inflated prices hard drives are cheaper than buying all the blurays (which I’d also need to find a place to store) so I generally try and get remuxes or untouched streams. That said I got my drives from shucked external drives which are now going for over double what I bought them for. HDR should help with the rich blacks if you have a monitor that supports it, I think it might with tonemapping too but it obviously will depend on how it was mastered in addition to what anyone does to encode it afterwards.
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@akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-10-05 19:17
What video file sizes do you guys download and why? I don’t know about sizes, but I stick to 1080p remuxes, because I have brain damage that makes my anus itch just by knowing if and when the video has been re-encoded to save space. Also the blacks. :) And what is the correlation between video size and quality? The only correlation might be the size to objective quality, which isn’t what you as a consumer is after anyway, unless you’re a data hoarder or the likes. You’re after the subjective quality: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_quality Who are y’alls downloading 20+GB movies? Are you storing all that or are you downmixing? Are you stealing your harddrives out of the recycle bin? Nope, I’m just lucky to have an extremely narrow field of interest (no, it’s not *Human Centipede). I’m financially hard locked to the 15TB that I spent four years aggregating before LLM data centers fcked us.
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@veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-05 19:30
I recommend nothing higher than 720p, maybe 1080p in exceptional cases where you like the content very much and you expect integer scaling (up or down) to do a good enough work on whatever player will be playing. 480p can be fine for some things, even 360p (which has the advantage of integer scaling readily to 720p but the effect is only worth it for something like older animated programmes). Audio is different and lighter and you can go with higher qualities (on the same number of channels) without much issue. Remember the basic maths: halving the target resolution and scaling down the bitrate accordingly effectively opens up a reduction in size of up to 75% (each frame saves one rectangle instead of four), but beyond that it really depends on the codec and the visual structure of the content), and the result can be replayed on the original resolution simply by doing hardware integer scaling. As for codecs, if you are already going with Jellyfin, just pick the most efficient codec you can find. If you need compatibility just go with the classics that play even on a 2000s “smart” TV.
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@swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2026-10-05 19:46
I care more about file type than file size, but an average movie for me is about 5-6G.
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@bss03@infosec.pub 2026-10-05 20:07
I have several TB of storage, and occasionally I will just delete stuff that I haven’t revisited in a while. I really should convert to some sort of offline storage library instead of deleting, but I haven’t yet. I actually don’t do that many movies, but I do a lot of TV. I do 1080p x265 because that’s really all the monitor I have for VLC. I have downloaded 4K in the past, and there is a 4K TV in the living room, but I don’t usually notice the quality difference and the file sizes are a lot bigger. I have a poor Internet connection (best available in my area), so smaller sizes help me keep my ratios up. But, that’s just my preference. I have a friend that insists on 4K, but they notice quality issues and are distracted by them more easily. Often qualify blacks also depends on good encoder settings, so if you find an encoder / encoding team that does well, it might be worth seeking out their version(s), even if the file sizes are larger or their releases take longer.
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@Jump365@lemmy.zip 2026-10-06 03:51
Well…technically GB =/= quality. Different compressions will affext quality and aize differently. But I guess “on average” more GB is gonna be better. So if it’s like 100GB vs 5GB yeah there will be a big difference. A 10-15GB x265 and a 20-25gb x264? Less obvious answer. Basically just start getting stuff and eventually you’ll see what you like more. I hate banding and want every pimple on the actor visible so for me if I like a movie it’s remux central