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Why aren't more releases x265? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option.

While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My raspberry pi doesnt transcode h265 very well at all. Much easier to expand the storage until I can upgrade to something better

[+] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my apologies, my pi doesnt handle it well on plex. Didnt realise it at the time and sorta just went with what was easiest to set up before realising I'd need to pay to get transcoding 😔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I stick to 264 for the same reason. I'm happy running Plex from my Pi4. Multiple streams are fine to devices around the home.

Also streams fine on my phone when external.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

at least on a 4, this command will misleadingly return "disabled" even though your programs are able to use hwdec, because the h.265 decoder isn't part of the Pi 4's GPU, it's elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think the 5 has any hardware for encoding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

nor decoding 264 :(

a rather annoying regression from the 4 to the 5, especially when the 5 now supports more MIPI cameras where live encoding is crucial.