Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option.

While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

RARBG was so good for this, their releases were of such good consistent quality

If you search for ORARBG on therarbg site you can still find some OG releases and not random YIFY crap

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just use qbitorrent and the search feature

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Didn't even know that was a thing ngl and I use qbit nox on my server. Kinda obsoletes the *arr suite

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Eh, the *arr apps are more about the freedom to be hands-off. Ideally you will just request something in a frontend like Overseerr from your phone and it will handle the rest. Or automatically grab upon release.

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