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I have an extensive movie/tv show library. Been collecting for years and is a mixed bag of media types. I would like to convert all to h265 or something similar to try and conserve space. Currently my media is sitting at around 30TB's I know from a previous post that is not as significant as some others but converting one by one would be a nightmarish undertaking. I am hoping someone has a cli script to do the conversion.

I am currently using radarr, sonarr, lidarr and readarr for my media I know lidarr and readarr are dead and am looking for an alernative either for those or the full stack. I would also like to perform the conversion of media from the downloaded format to what is suggested to the best format.

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[โ€“] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I made a Handbrake profile with the settings i wanted, and used the "bulk add" function to add entire shows to the queue.

The media lives on the network, my desktop does the heavy lifting, and saves the resulting video to the hard drive. Then I copy everything back to the network.

It's not terribly efficient, but I couldn't get tdarr to work, so this works for me. Going forward, i just have to make sure my sonarr settings are on point

[โ€“] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

That's what I did back in the day. When blockbuster closed down I ended up with over 1000 movies and a few bad sets of TV shows. I had to encode low back then as I only had 4tb of space.