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.
If you reencode to a more efficient codec, you can save ridiculous amounts of space. If you’re interested in reencoding and are willing to play with self hosting, look into Tdarr, it’s an app that can reencode your whole library. Been using it for a while after switching from my personal solution has been wonderful. I just put files into my media directories and it picks it up, reencodes the file and replaces the original if everything checks out.
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.
Thanks I will give it a shot and see how it goes. The biggest thing holding me back is older hardware like the Nvidia Shield for example not supporting AV1.
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.
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.
Presumably you know, but for anyone else: the word for this is “transparent.” It’s when the codec leaves no noticeable artifacts.
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
I wonder if the apple vision pro is able to play AV1 files 🤔 i guess, would be really bad if not
Can you tell me more about reencoding to save space?
If you reencode to a more efficient codec, you can save ridiculous amounts of space. If you’re interested in reencoding and are willing to play with self hosting, look into Tdarr, it’s an app that can reencode your whole library. Been using it for a while after switching from my personal solution has been wonderful. I just put files into my media directories and it picks it up, reencodes the file and replaces the original if everything checks out.
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.
I wonder if it’s possible to re-encode from H.265/HEVC to AV1
You can play in handbrake with AV1 encoding to see how it goes. I think I set the compression to 36 or something.
Thanks I will give it a shot and see how it goes. The biggest thing holding me back is older hardware like the Nvidia Shield for example not supporting AV1.
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.