Forgive me for not knowing much about video, but I believe this is completely uncompressed. And, I am okay with that. Every device in my house is capable of handling the 1080P and Direct Plays the file (possibly transcoding the audio).
Even Externally, it directly plays just fine. Sure its big, but even at 26 GB it only needs 3 to 5 mbps upload to make it work… Even if it does transcode, my server can handle it.
So, is there any real reason to transcode (other than space requirements)…
and then it brings up the 4K Content, still, internally, not a problem, but externally, everything will be transcoded, what is the next best thing with Trancoding? Hx265? Does Plex use this when it transcodes?
It’s unlikely that your video is RAW. It’s likely just a lossless h.264 (or close to)
If you have no need to transcode/compress the file, then don’t.
I do, as I have space limitations, and have determined it fits my needs better. If you don’t have those space restrictions, and your upload/serverside transcoding is enough, then keeping the original with the data intact is ideal.
There is no way to compress a video without losing some of the data within the video. Keep in mind that the difference between lossless and perceived loss due to compression are different things.
You can compress a video to be perceptually identical to the original, and still have space savings.
You may also have other considerations. For example, you may want to push more data to the beginning of the video file, to decrease the time it takes to start streaming it.
Good luck though, and I’m a little jealous of your bandwidth.
In Windows, compressing a video file (with the file system) will often buy you little or no savings in storage. When PMS goes to play the file, it will have to spend the extra CPU to decompress it.
Personally, disk space is cheap compared to CPU. You would be better off re-encoding using h.265 IF that’s what you want to do. Not all players support it (actually most don’t) yet.
My files are typically in the 20-40 GB range . I have taken the time to pre-process them such that a little Synology NAS (Atom D2700 cpu) can play them, including 4K UHD at 50+ Mbps. I believe preparation is the key. Do it right upfront and be done.
@ChuckPa said:
In Windows, compressing a video file (with the file system) will often buy you little or no savings in storage. When PMS goes to play the file, it will have to spend the extra CPU to decompress it.
Good point, a small amount of extra CPU power during decompression might be a consideration.
@ChuckPa said:
Personally, disk space is cheap compared to CPU. You would be better off re-encoding using h.265 IF that’s what you want to do. Not all players support it (actually most don’t) yet.
I’m in the process of converting to h.265 at the moment, and am noticing minimal loss in perceived quality and a space saving of around 30-50% over XVID and h.264
I’m quite impressed.
@ChuckPa said:
My files are typically in the 20-40 GB range . I have taken the time to pre-process them such that a little Synology NAS (Atom D2700 cpu) can play them, including 4K UHD at 50+ Mbps. I believe preparation is the key. Do it right upfront and be done.
@ChuckPa said:
In Windows, compressing a video file (with the file system) will often buy you little or no savings in storage. When PMS goes to play the file, it will have to spend the extra CPU to decompress it.
Good point, a small amount of extra CPU power during decompression might be a consideration.
I don’t use windows compression, it’s just what is pulled from the bluray
@ChuckPa said:
Personally, disk space is cheap compared to CPU. You would be better off re-encoding using h.265 IF that’s what you want to do. Not all players support it (actually most don’t) yet.
I’m in the process of converting to h.265 at the moment, and am noticing minimal loss in perceived quality and a space saving of around 30-50% over XVID and h.264
What process/program are you using to convert to h.256?
I’m quite impressed.
@ChuckPa said:
My files are typically in the 20-40 GB range . I have taken the time to pre-process them such that a little Synology NAS (Atom D2700 cpu) can play them, including 4K UHD at 50+ Mbps. I believe preparation is the key. Do it right upfront and be done.
