About a year and a half ago I decided to build a freenas system for media and ultimately plex. It has been great! Plenty of storage. I currently have almost 400 movies with about 40 of them bluray as well ripped and converted to MKV for plex.
My question is this…
Is there any point to having the DVD version of a movie on plex if I have the bluray? I am not concerned about storage at all. Is there a bandwidth benefit when out of the house? What about when on a mobile connection?
There is no benefit, IMO.
Even a Plex-created ‘version’ (to prevent transcoding during playback) from the BR rip will look better than the real DVD rip.
Thanks for the reply!
With the amount of storage I have, deleting the DVDs won’t save much and it isn’t really needed but it will save some time in the ripping process and when I purchase in the future I don’t need to spend extra on the bluray/dvd/digital combo.
Unless you wanted to maintain that DVD rip for your remote users that are having trouble streaming 30Mbps through your 6Mbps upload pipe, or in the case that your ‘upgrade’ didn’t contain those commentary tracks you took the time to encode…
Otto? Apparently you haven’t seen some of the pure **** they’re sending out on those BluRay Discs. I have many DVD rips that look way better than some of those upgrades. Of course in that case I keep the DVD rip and frisbee the BluRay out the window.
I would say just keep one version, the highest quality, least re-encoded/transcoded one. Plex can make a version for whatever device you wan to watch your media on.
It all works fine for me using Bluray original rips, whether I watch it in its original form on the big screen, or across a 700kb/s remote play to my phone.
There IS a reason to keep DVD rips. Sometimes movies will have slightly different versions. For example - The Devil’s Advocate on DVD is different than other versions if you have the version that was released before it was recalled. There are many, many examples of these.
I’m don’t particularly care about commentary or extra scenes…although there are times when we see a movie on tv and it has a few scenes that are not on our copy of the movie and I wish it was. Other than that my focus was on the performance of my server. If it needs to be transcoded, for any reason, is it harder to take a higher quality bluray down to the dvd quality if both would need transcoded anyway? Now to fix the movies I have found that use fake tracks in addition to the drm!
