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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?
X265 all day long. Changed out most of my rips and gained terabytes of space back with no loss in quality.
It's amazing being able to hold an entire season of a show in the space that just a couple episodes at 264 would have used.
x265 because I like the file size and am satisfied with the quality.
My server has a hard time with x265, they constantly stutter when I try to play them through jellyfin
I don't have any issues. Have you got a semi recent GPU in your server?
I like it because it doesn't transcode at all.
I'm using a pi4 as a media center so 265 as it can cope with 2160p
Wait, does the pi4 support 265 now? I meddled around with it a few years ago, and it always had to transcode 265 to 264.
My opinion is based on Rarbg, that was the only time I paid attention. but x265 for sure.
i have always wondered the difference between the two encodings (beyond the obvious filesize). thanks!
i am also still lamenting the shutdown of RARBG. :(
My old ass computers sadly can't handle h265 well so I tend to stick to h264. Moreover, my beamer cannot handle 4K or HDR so that makes more sense overall
I prefer AV1. The improvement of H.265 over H.264 is not uniform. It takes a lot of effort to get consistent results across content and content types.
I mainly download x265. I have a few AV1 4K here and there but for now will still to HEVC till AV1 get more widely adopted
Ah yes, you see these are number terms that indicate how videos are encoded. I absolutely understand how to feel with this post and are worthy of participating in the smart discussion in the comments.
imposter syndrome aside, left is a nice grid, right is a really really bad attempt at drawing a golden ratio. Sure left is better to maintain average quality. Why are people talking about converting to one and then the other? Why is the golden ratio one not symmetric!
1080p x265, 720p x264
x265 all the way, it uses less storage but can still look good.
x265 doesn't work for some hardware scenarios for me (e.g. files served up by UMS from my PC don't play properly on LG TV or using the standard media player on Roku). So I have to use x264 for anything that I won't be watching on a computer or via Stremio.
I'd like to have the hard drive space for x264, but as I don't I prioritise 265. If I do download 264 I then use tdarr to convert it to 265 myself.
I prefer whatever codec my hardware supports. Currently Pi 4 does both your options so I don't care which. x265 has slightly smaller file size for the same quality wish is nice.
I just finished moving all my media to x265 and saved 7TB in the process. Quality looks plenty good to me but I always start from a remux if I can. Totally Worth it for the extra space.
I have a personal Jellyfin server, and I usually reencode from x264 to AV1. Though if it's a matter of choosing a source, I always go for x264 for the least compression.
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 = 👑
I've been using x265 exclusively for all my media needs, except on the rare occasions where only x264 was available.