I’ve been ripping/storing a ton of Bluray movies and am curious how other people handle their approach to quality -vs- size.
I’ve been primarily going for REMUX 1080p, most of my movies tend to be in the 20-30gb range. Obviously, I could compress them, but my server seems to handle things rather well currently (direct stream most of the time, occasional transcode - my CPU rarely goes over 20-40%). I keep 4k rips now in a separate Movies4k library.
I’m sure everyone will chime in with: “there is no right or wrong, whatever works for you”. I’m just curious, what “works for you” and why? Do you try to store REMUX (ie: original quality) or do you try to optimize storage space more, etc.
I generally say storing at best quality is best as future tech (TVs, Players, Storage, etc) will all advance. Compressing seems to lose something which might be desired later. Think about years ago having the best quality VHS available then best quality DVD then best quality Bluray, etc.
Of course storing huge files means more disk space and potentially more CPU to process the file. Storing multiple copies would save CPU during playback but take even more space.
I store the best quality I can get on unlimited Google drive storage (via Gsuites).
With currently ~10€/month this is a no-brainer for me.
Depends on your bandwidth at home if this setup works well or not.
I keep everything raw off the Blu-Ray without any transcoding. I use a Synology NAS with 50TB available to store it all, 35.6 TB in use with 1,518 titles as of this moment. Buying all that disk is a pain but as long as the Synology raid holds up it should be good (Also use offsite backup! ripping is slowww and I don’t want to do it again)
I rip everything h264, ac3 5.1. Typical 2 hr 1080p 16 to 20 gb.
Honestly I am hardpressed to notice any difference on a 75 inch sony 4k tv, and a pretty good yamaha sound system, between my rip and the actual blu ray player. In fact no one I have had over could ever tell the difference in either video or sound between the two.
