Hi, I just want to hear from the plex community regarding if you encode your media or keep it lossless. An more indepth like file size/video bitrate and software. Cheers.

I keep all my of main features lossless (about 125 bluray rips). I have no ambitions of keeping 1000’s of movies since I only watch media I’ve actually purchased, and storage is a relatively easy problem to solve at that scale. I tested a bit when I was starting out and found that a 10mbps rip was i…

I was terrified to encode a few months ago. I had always had the thought that blu-ray/remux is always superior to any encode. I have been doing it for a few months now and confident that I am not losing anything that impacts my viewing experience. When I started, I always did A/B comparisons of the …

When you use those ‘VooDoo Magic’ HB controls - like the CRF and Speed sliders you ‘hope’ HB can come up with a decent rip. What you usually get is wildly varying file sizes and qualities. I once did two episodes of Perry Mason from the same DVD with the same slider settings - one was 4GB with a bit…

I would disagree with that JuiceWSA. Yes using CRF can give you drastic different file size which is normal but not different Quality. CRF will give you constant quality and will use however many bits as needed. On the flip side using a steady bitrate can waist bits where it’s not needed and not h…

@cayars said: CRF is much better overall for quality. Not over here at my house. I prefer predictable quality and file sizes time after time after time after time after time. If I wanted total mystery and algorithm guesswork along with wildly varying file sizes and qualities - I’d just let Ple…

You got it backwards Juice. You can’t predict quality based on bitrate at all!!! After all think about it. If you have a scene with someone sitting at a table and nothing moving vs a scene from Transformers where the robots change from robot to car there is so much more going on in the action fil…

Uh-huh… Well, I’m not going to argue with you. You are convinced you know what you’re talking about… and so am I. Arguing simply doesn’t work for us. I am going to point this out - again (for all the good it will do in your case - lol): It’s not a constant bit rate. It’s an average bit rate. Th…

Again not many people use that option since it was originally use to for people who needed things to fit on certain size discs and whatnot You’re forcing an average bitrate on content and you have no idea what bitrate the content requires. Try using those same settings on a film drama then encode …

@cayars said: Again not many people use that option since it was originally use to for people who needed things to fit on certain size discs and whatnot You’re forcing an average bitrate on content and you have no idea what bitrate the content requires. Try using those same settings on a film dr…

Concerning constant bitrate or constant quality (variable bitrate) check out this article: HandBrake Documentation — Constant Quality vs Average Bit Rate “Unless you really need to aim for a target filesize (which we recommend against), it is highly recommended that you use Constant Quality.” You …

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