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I wonder how that compares to my own collection...
I haven't found a source for the size of Netflix/Amazon/Hulus libraries; but I haven't looked all that hard either.
Impressive porn collection you got there.
I'm gonna need a lot more lotion...
It’s probably all just Harry Potter fan fiction tbh.
These two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
You gotta pump those numbers up
Storage is expensive :/
That's already almost 36tb, after conversion to HEVC which compressed it ~40%
Storage is cheaper than it’s ever been if you get HDDs
Cheaper, but it's still not cheap and I really don't have a whole lot of disposable income rn.
You can get 12tb renewed drives for $100. A lot will even have decent warranties. If you’re lying for like, 3 streaming services, and cancel all three in favor of saving your own media locally it pays for itself quickly. Especially if you download stuff from like HBO Max.
This is doubly true now that streaming services have started raising prices and pay walling content.
They aren’t though, price per GB on renewed storage with warranty is less than 10 cents a GB. That’s insanely low compared to just five years ago.
How did you convert to hvec? I'd love to do that on my entire library but don't know where to start. I'd also love to burn subtitles into some foreign films since Plex is generally terrible at doing subtitles...
Up until now, I've been using the convert tool in Emby server. You can select a whole library and convert it, or individual items/playlists/collections; with options to automatically convert new media as it's added.
Tbh, I've been having a bit of trouble with it re-converting media it's already done, so I was looking for another solution.
Someone in this thread mentioned tdarr, so I'm going to be looking into that this weekend. Seems like a much more manageable tool with more powerful options.
/edit; I should also mention, this is a long process. Using an rtx4080, it was almost 3 full months non-stop to convert my entire media library from mostly h264 -> h265.
Cool, I'll check out tdarr. My server is sitting idle most of the time so I'm fine with it taking it's time doing it in the background.
Edit Up and running. Pretty easy to config and get going. See you in about a year when everything is done...