If only there was a protocol they could use to allow customers to share files with each other, using their own bandwidth.
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Not the fact that you can pay your way, but how much they push it. It's plainly and openly a for-profit enterprise, not just server cost reimbursement.
So he's basically Elon Musk.
It is.
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Scene has standards. You don't have to be scene to use scene naming standards. https://scenerules.org
Just name them in scene format even if you're not scene.
The filter you're using to avoid multiple encoding attacks creates multiple encoding attacks.
There's so much room that format specifications don't tell you how to encode, only how to decode. Designing the best encoder is a huge research project.
You choose the output bitrate by adjusting the quality. If you ask for a 3GB file you get a 3GB file.
H265 has film grain mode so the encode can remove the film grain, set a bit saying there is film grain, and the player adds fake film grain back in.
If they want to, they'll easily sue you.