# Do you still compress your vids

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/do-you-still-compress-your-vids/741718 "2021-09-07T23:20:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![scarpad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@scarpad](https://forums.plex.tv/u/scarpad)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/do-you-still-compress-your-vids/741718/1 "2021-09-07T23:20:02Z")

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or are you just ripping to uncompressed mkv?

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**Author:** ![Elijah\_Baley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elijah_baley/32/10336_2.png) [@Elijah\_Baley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Elijah_Baley)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/do-you-still-compress-your-vids/741718/2 "2021-09-07T23:36:41Z")

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I “still” rip to the same basic settings I always have used. That is a normal 1080p for films using color and 720p or even 480p for most black and white. My old eyes are not good enough for dubious improvements to make a difference.

Of course that means that my “large” movies are almost never over 4 gb or under 1 gb. That works well for me and I feel no need for “better.”

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/do-you-still-compress-your-vids/741718/3 "2021-09-08T06:07:39Z")

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Nitpicking: what you are ripping from your discs is already compressed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/do-you-still-compress-your-vids/741718/4 "2021-12-07T06:07:53Z")

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