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[-] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Convert to HEVC

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 12 points 3 weeks ago

I went all to AV1 last year. Enough stuff supports it, and realtime transcoding on a (relatively cheap) Arc GPU works well enough.

AV1 is superior enough for both size and visual fidelity, that it's worth the slightly extra encoding time. But absolutely not if you don't have HW encoding.

[-] cosmos8188@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yep HEVC can suck one. AV1 is the format everyone wanted, media formats shouldnt have any loyalties tied to them

[-] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Naw it works without hardware encoding just takes a little longer. I just create a script that batches everything up and let it work.

[-] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I actually tested AV1 myself , ran a batch of 26 files on a 2014 laptop , worked great, used ffmpeg and libsvt-av1

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I would like to do this but I'm not confident I wouldn't turn the quality to shit when doing the reencode.

[-] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

You won’t if you just create copy first then o ly use like 30 sec clips and compare them. Look at CRF and preset modes. I use ffmpeg but hand-brake is also a good frontend if you don’t like cli.

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