I think I was hung up on the very small file thing because, and I'm a bit lost here, Plex had an issue previously (if not still) where transcoding already small sizes made them look even worse. I'd still say do it, as they shouldn't let those reasons stop them from using H.265. The exception perhaps being the client player being old, or someone's impatience to encode it, etc. I agree that H.265 is better, just by it's existence, and should be used in almost all cases.
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That first user base may watch most just on their laptops, the latter use case, like me, may watch most in a dedicated home theater. It's a matter of preference based on the use case. Others (like me) have 1/4 of a Petabyte, also have thousands of movies and thousands of shows, but obviously much larger files. Some people have thousands of movies, but they all fit on a single hard drive and are 700MB each. I suggest to future proof it, at least a bit. You don't want to get everything in one quality, just to do it all again later. So think about what you currently, and/or will soon support for playing things.
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Your definition of quality should be based on your best setup that plays locally - no point in stressing about the 4K Dolby Vision/Dolby Atmos movie that you watch only on your phone when on vacation. Others say they'll never use that stuff, so they only keep the lossy Dolby Digital track. I just make sure I keep the Dolby TrueHD/Atmos and DTS-X audio tracks, as well as audio commentaries. The type of movie also may justify your size - Terminator 3 vs Interstellar, with both in 4K but the latter getting higher quality, Dolby Vision, etc. This is all arbitrary as well, because "file size" doesn't mean anything - it's bitrate, etc. I won't use H.265 unless the file would be above 7 GBs, but ideally if it gets over 10GB, then for sure I'd prefer H.265. So for a large file use H.265, for a small file use H.264. It becomes a balance of file compression for file size vs quality loss. Using H.265 on a larger file has the most file size efficiency alongside maintaining quality. My understanding on how the compression works, is that taking a small video file and then using H.265 on it tends to be worse quality for minimal benefit than just using H.264. With each type, I determine if I keep all audio tracks, I remove subtitles that I won't use, and then compression is using H.265 for larger files, but H.264 with smaller files.
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Some get 720p (sitcoms), some get 1080P (important shows/most movies), and then some get 4K (the good stuff). Ha - I agree with the method noted - which is why I've got three 12-bay NAS units filled with 16TB drives.Īside from that solution, it really depends on your definition of "ton of quality". Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules
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