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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

No, you’re absolutely correct. Many people just don’t realize how crappy the resolution is on DVD, and I would hate for people to buy some and be surprised at how bad it looks.

I ripped all of my DVDs because I have them, and combined they’re something like the size of one or two 4k Blurays. So don’t go out and buy a bunch of old DVDs if Blurays are an option for you.

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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

combined they’re something like the size of one or two 4k Blurays

Ha! That’s pretty funny to me.

I think that would be a fun hobby for me, if I had the time for it. To gather a sizable blu-ray collection, and rip into a smaller size media library. There’s so much to get into though, with all the codec options and settings and quantizing and shit. Mind-boggling when you haven’t even started researching yet. 😅

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, just start somewhere and optimize as you go. I’ve got an 8TB NAS (two 8TB drives in mirror), and it’s not even halfway full, despite having a ton of DVDs and Bluray rips. I haven’t bought many Blurays lately bags because Netflix was good enough, but I’m getting back into it.
  
  DVD max quality is 480p, and it takes up ~2GB for longer movies at super quality m4v format with Handbrake (the first Hobbit movie was 2.5GB). 1080p Bluray rips are like 10x that.
  
  I accidentally ripped a few with the wrong settings, but it’s easy to redo it. So just get started, but make sure you have plenty of disk space. I use Jellyfin for watching on my TV and it works pretty well and was pretty easy to set up.
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I have liked 16 TB of raw storage (no backups, kek) but I’m nearing filling that up soon actually. 🏴‍☠️😅
    
    But I do intend to set up a NAS and a Pi or something that talks to the NAS and serves Plex or Jellyfin (preferably). That would be sweet. I don’t know where to start looking into what I need though. I want a Pi because it should run 24/7 and reboot very seldom. Just so I can let my desktop computer rest when I’m not using it.
    
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