Now you can find the same 4K video from few GBs to a hundred GBs, and I am wondering: where to stop? With music there is a similar phenomenon by which after a certain bitrate it becomes an esoteric art to detect improvements. So, what is your “very good enough” bitrate for 4K videos?

  • @twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    -51 year ago

    Honestly, for me, remux is the only way to go. Why would you risk downgrading the original quality? Is disk space / bandwidth really an issue in 2023?

    • Madbrad200
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      321 year ago

      Uhh yes? Hard drives are expensive and so is cloud storage

      • @twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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        01 year ago

        In my very humble and personal opinion, theres a finite number of content I will be able to watch in my lifetime.

        Like many others I’m pretty sure, I have long gone past this limit, yet my personal collection of 50+mbps remuxes barely go over 6TB. This is hardly bank breaking

        • @nestEggParrot
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          21 year ago

          How? I have mostly 1080 and 720 collection and have filled 10 TB. Free space is down to 500GB and am budgeting for more drives.

          Most aren’t even good rips just something I could find.

          Granted i haven’t more than 40% of it and is purgable if I end up needing space.

    • @Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      41 year ago

      I hope they are 4k remuxes then. 1080p is h264, ancient and useless codec. h265 encodes are identical yet smaller