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You got a remux, which is uncompressed. You can turn those off in Radarr to avoid those surprises.
If you want to fine-tune your file sizes (and quality) further, you can set up custom formats and quality profiles. The Trash Guides explain it well, the "HD Blu-ray + Web" profile on that page is a solid starting point. It'll usually grab 6-12GB movies, but you can tweak it if you want them smaller.
Trash Guides FTW. I’ve used them for all my *arr setups and it’s been flawless.
Doesn't Trash Guides prefer larger files though? Iirc if you just do everything as they recommend you'll always be grabbing the highest quality stuff available, which is the opposite of what this person wants.
The guide doesn’t set an upper bound on the UHD quality profiles, but that doesn’t mean you have to set up yours exactly the same.
I have mine set with reasonable limits and have never run into a problem with file size, just have to make sure you’re setting the values to something that’s a) realistic and b) that you can live with.
One thing to note: if you set your threshold cutoffs properly you don’t have to worry about downloading files that are always at the upper end of the limit. Once the service downloads a file that meets the threshold it stops downloading for that episode/movie. If it grabs a file that’s below the threshold, it will keep trying to upgrade the file until the threshold is met.
You can do this with custom formats. You'd want to create a custom format that gives a score if the file is below a certain size threshold (say 1.5GB per hour), then add minimum custom scores to the release profiles you use (e.g. Bluray 1080p). You can also add custom filters for release groups that prioritise file size. YTS for example keeps their releases as small as possible.
Most modern devices should support x265 playback which has the compression sizes you are looking for.
In addition to setting the cap to file sizes for media, you can also blacklist tags like REMUX etc.
This is an example of a custom format for hevc/x265 files that are no larger than 6Gigs. You just need to create a new custom quality profile and give below custom format a positive/higher score.
{
"name": "Minima",
"includeCustomFormatWhenRenaming": false,
"specifications": [
{
"name": "No mo than 6 Gigs",
"implementation": "SizeSpecification",
"negate": false,
"required": true,
"fields": {
"min": 0,
"max": 6
}
},
{
"name": "1080p",
"implementation": "ResolutionSpecification",
"negate": false,
"required": true,
"fields": {
"value": 1080
}
},
{
"name": "eng",
"implementation": "LanguageSpecification",
"negate": false,
"required": false,
"fields": {
"value": 1
}
},
{
"name": "Preferred x265",
"implementation": "ReleaseTitleSpecification",
"negate": false,
"required": false,
"fields": {
"value": "[xh][ ._-]?265|\\\\bHEVC(\\\\b|\\\\d)"
}
}
]
}
You can edit the accepted sizes under Settings > Quality
Think the "Quality Definitions" section of the settings in Radarr is what you're looking for.
44gb for 1080 seems to be a remux file, which is the source of channel not converted but only repackaged. Just remove remux from your profiles and sed radarr to upgrade to other 1080 profiles by moving remux down in the list.