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Hello just making a poll, which one do you prefer? personally I prefer x265 but since the rarbg falldown i've seen that almost all 1080p rips are in x264, what do you think about that, and do you recommend any place to find more x265 content beside those in the megathread?

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[–] fades@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shit, I like HEVC in theory for the compression especially but it’s copyrighted bullshit or whatever.

I use Plex with lifetime pass on my QNAP NAS and it has to hardware transcode HEVC to a playable format because of said copyrighted bullshit.

It doesn’t affect me that much unless I’m trying to jump around on the media as it will need to load. The other thing is that you can have Plex save transcodes but that obviously gobbles up disk space.

tl;dr 264 = 👑

[–] h34d@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Shit, I like HEVC in theory for the compression especially but it’s copyrighted bullshit or whatever.

Isn't the same true for AVC/h264, at least in principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Licensing Might be less of an issue in practice though, idk.