Comment on How big is your media library?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoAbout the same here, minus the music videos (only a few dozen there for the kids), plus a fitness library, so I’d say it evens out to roughly equal.
Mostly HEVC but I still have some h.264 floating around that I have no interest in reencoding.
No AV1 at all until I get a new Intel GPU or newer Intel CPU to handle transcoding it nicely.
SpookyMulder@lemmy.4d2.org 1 week ago
There’s some relatively inexpensive NVIDIA cards now with AV1 hardware encoding. I’m on my third round of re-encoding my whole library (HEVC, then VP9, now AV1). For 1080p NTSC, I get about 13x speeds on NVENC AV1, whereas with VP9 I was CPU-bound at around 4x. Definitely worth the upgrade, in case you’re on the fence.
TheYang@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You do realize that you lose quality with wach encode, right?
It’s not AS bad when bitrates are high, but it’s still there.
SpookyMulder@lemmy.4d2.org 1 week ago
True.
When I migrated off of Jellyfin, I re-encoded everything up to that point directly from the Blu-ray rips wherever possible. Because I’d already started culling those for space, I did end up just doing another pass on the first round of encoding for a portion of the library. There’s some noticable degradation on those, and I’ll want to re-rip those at some point.
Fortunately, I’ve got my process pretty dialed in for ripping and I actually enjoy it, so if I ever have a quality issue, it’s not a huge ordeal to re-rip and encode.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
So what card are you using?
SpookyMulder@lemmy.4d2.org 1 week ago
I went with a GeForce RTX 4060. Cost was about $300.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Cool, thanks!
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah I just dont have a need with no devices to handle it natively, while the rest of my library can be. Building a new htpc media player for the living room next, new server after that.
New because I’m using a lenovo tiny as the server, which means either I build a new box completely, or I find the right used workststion tiny/mini/micro that can handle av1. Complete build will do a lot more (well, the t/m/m does too, but not to the extent my big box builds are set up for).