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Asking for suggestions on managing media (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by jhdeval@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'll just leave this here https://locatarr.github.io/

I have no experience using it https://home.tdarr.io/

Internet people say that if you reencode the movies, you will lose information and sacrifice quality. I do not know if it is noticable! It is probably visible on a large screen and definitely not on a small one. Like always: shit in, shit out.

You should always use the best source possible. If you don't have it, maybe someone who has it should do it and not you. I would wait for this person to do it and redownload it once it is available.

To me it just makes more sense that the person creating the 264/265 video does it instead of all the guys who just downloaded it. It's also better for the environment if only one person does it.

265 is not the future gold standard anymore but av1 is. If you are to do it, go for av1 but make sure all your devices can play it natively.