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Is HEVC (8-bit)/AAC a good, modern CODEC combination for rebuilding & reducing my library size without compromising quality? Helpful feedback would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While I tend to avoid encoding wherever possible, I use H265 10Bit at low RF to archive non-critical libraries (old TV shows in some users personal libraries, 1080p movies more than 1 year old and over 20gb etc..).

my average size reduction going from a 1080p Bluray remux of 35-40gb is about 50% with no significant effect to image quality. High action or high grain movies end up a bit larger, slower movies with no action and most animations compress a bit smaller. works well overall.

basically any modern device can decode them and the image quality tends to be a bit better than 8bit.

I'd like to go with AV1, but very few of my client devices can decode it, so its not worth the trouble to save a few percent,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a problem with 10-Bit though. When I try to encode more than 1 file in 10-Bit with the HEVC_AMF ffmpeg encoder, my CPU usage goes to 100% and stays. And with 1000s of files to do. Well, you can imagine. Ugh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a bug in the encoder perhaps. I dont have that issue with my setup, but I'm not using AMD GPUs