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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago

Impressive porn collection you got there.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna need a lot more lotion...

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

It’s probably all just Harry Potter fan fiction tbh.

[-] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

porn collection

Harry Potter fan fiction

These two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

You gotta pump those numbers up

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

Storage is expensive :/

That's already almost 36tb, after conversion to HEVC which compressed it ~40%

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Storage is cheaper than it’s ever been if you get HDDs

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Cheaper, but it's still not cheap and I really don't have a whole lot of disposable income rn.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

really large hdds are still really expensive, the prices have somewhat plateaued at this rate. Nobody really needs such massive drives, and their isn't exactly an incentive to produce larger drives, especially now that everyone seems to be moving to ssds.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

that's also renewed storage, and i guess compared to the last decade it's pretty good.

But even then compared to the continual creep of file sizes, it's debatable. I mean 4k took off the last 5-10 years. I have yt videos ranging from 1-20 GB for 4k content now.

[-] MrJukes@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months 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...

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

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.

and if you're looking to do software conversion you're easily looking at years, but considering how long most media servers will be up for, it might actually be worthwhile to aggressively automate that so it just runs in the background while you aren't looking. Also eats up additional CPU time which might be a benefit for someone.

[-] MrJukes@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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...

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

i definitely wasn't the one to recommend tdarr, but it seems like a pretty good solution, and rather flexible at that. So there's that.

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