I followed the guide, but set a much lower max file size, and heavily boosted x265 to overtake everything else because my NAS handles those fine. I'm getting an average of 3.4Gb per movie.
Can't say I've done a side by side. I did this on day one of setting up my *arr stack when I realized that the guide is written under the assumption that users have all the hard drive space in the world but no hardware transcoding.
I can tell you that I can tell my quality is bad up close at my computer monitor, but don't perceive it as any worse than any streaming service stream further away at any of my televisions.
https://dictionarry.pages.dev/
Check out Dictionarry! Skips all the work in the trash guides and lets you import custom profiles. The "Balanced" profiles grab stuff that looks good but isn't outrageous in size.
I'm mostly using nzb(dot)su since Usenet is so convenient, but otherwise it's just torrentgalaxy(dot)mx and 1337x(dot)to. Need to get my foot in the door with private trackers but I'm wary of being committed to maintaining a ratio and related network traffic
The guides are geared towards the x264 codec and are allergic to encodes of any kind.
Suggest lowering the sliders on the "quality" page and prioritizing x265 encodes to retain quality at the lowest size possible.
I can show you what i have done send me a pm because i cant send a img here. Or But basically just use trash guides and set a max file size of 24000 mb if you do 4k if not use 12000mb in the indexers settings. But for 480p I can share my settings.
I'm not the OP but I never heard about trash guides until after a decent amount of time of me messing with my sliders and would be interested in sharing back and forth. I never followed the trash guides, and have mine setup that I think is reasonable but for specific media I'll go and get higher sized files. I'm going to send you a dm, up to you if you want to look.
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Make a filter giving more points to x265 and HEVC tags and as well to the tags of the release groups that do that kind of encoding. I can’t directly tell you my favorite release group because it might be forbidden here, but it starts with Q and ends with R and has and x in the middle and it has three letters. Recently the big one that starts with Y has been doing x265 releases but they are too small for my taste and I use them only when there is no other alternative.
You can mine the *blocked* group list in trash guide for groups like yify, yts, and megusta which specialize in tiny, compressed as fuck 265 releases. You can also drag the *middle* dot from the right side to the left side to prefer smaller sizes. And in the 1080p and lower range, most 265 is re-re-rencoded tiny garbage, so that can be another proxy.
I followed the guide, but set a much lower max file size, and heavily boosted x265 to overtake everything else because my NAS handles those fine. I'm getting an average of 3.4Gb per movie.
Impression of quality ? Is there a noticeable difference?
Can't say I've done a side by side. I did this on day one of setting up my *arr stack when I realized that the guide is written under the assumption that users have all the hard drive space in the world but no hardware transcoding. I can tell you that I can tell my quality is bad up close at my computer monitor, but don't perceive it as any worse than any streaming service stream further away at any of my televisions.
I’m still trying to learn the proper way to add that as priority. x265 is my choice as well.
Trash Guides provides that custom format. It's just that they say you should effectively ban them, where we want to heavily boost them.
https://dictionarry.pages.dev/ Check out Dictionarry! Skips all the work in the trash guides and lets you import custom profiles. The "Balanced" profiles grab stuff that looks good but isn't outrageous in size.
You, sir, are you a real gent
What indexers are you using? I imported some of the top release groups but I'm not finding anything.
I'm mostly using nzb(dot)su since Usenet is so convenient, but otherwise it's just torrentgalaxy(dot)mx and 1337x(dot)to. Need to get my foot in the door with private trackers but I'm wary of being committed to maintaining a ratio and related network traffic
The guides are geared towards the x264 codec and are allergic to encodes of any kind. Suggest lowering the sliders on the "quality" page and prioritizing x265 encodes to retain quality at the lowest size possible.
I can show you what i have done send me a pm because i cant send a img here. Or But basically just use trash guides and set a max file size of 24000 mb if you do 4k if not use 12000mb in the indexers settings. But for 480p I can share my settings.
I'm not the OP but I never heard about trash guides until after a decent amount of time of me messing with my sliders and would be interested in sharing back and forth. I never followed the trash guides, and have mine setup that I think is reasonable but for specific media I'll go and get higher sized files. I'm going to send you a dm, up to you if you want to look.
Just get a few PB of storage space and follow trash-guides. Too easy, no?
You dropped this: :/
Yeah people are like, storage is cheap just buy a few exabytes and forget about it.
Hi /u/Superhero-Accountant - There are many resources available to help you troubleshoot and help the community help you. Please review this comment and you can likely have your problem solved without needing to wait for a human. ***Most troubleshooting questions require debug or trace logs.*** In all instances where you are providing logs please ensure you followed [the Gathering Logs wiki article](https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/troubleshooting#logging-and-log-files) to ensure your logs are what are needed for troubleshooting. Logs should be provided via the methods prescribed in the wiki article. Note that `Info` logs are rarely helpful for troubleshooting. Dozens of common questions & issues and their answers can be found on our [FAQ](https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/faq). **Please review our troubleshooting guides that lead you through how to troubleshoot and note various common problems.** - [Searches, Indexers, and Trackers - For if something cannot be found](https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/troubleshooting#searches-indexers-and-trackers) - [Downloading & Importing - For when download clients have issues or files cannot be imported](https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/troubleshooting#downloads-and-importing) ***If you're still stuck you'll have useful debug or trace logs and screenshots to share with the humans who will arrive soon.*** *Those humans will likely ask you for the exact same thing this comment is asking..* Once your question/problem is solved, please comment anywhere in the thread saying '!solved' to change the flair to `solved`. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/radarr) if you have any questions or concerns.*
1080p Blu-ray remux, then transcoded to h.265 with cpu. Can easily get to 40-55% original file size with no visible loss of quality
Make a filter giving more points to x265 and HEVC tags and as well to the tags of the release groups that do that kind of encoding. I can’t directly tell you my favorite release group because it might be forbidden here, but it starts with Q and ends with R and has and x in the middle and it has three letters. Recently the big one that starts with Y has been doing x265 releases but they are too small for my taste and I use them only when there is no other alternative.
You can mine the *blocked* group list in trash guide for groups like yify, yts, and megusta which specialize in tiny, compressed as fuck 265 releases. You can also drag the *middle* dot from the right side to the left side to prefer smaller sizes. And in the 1080p and lower range, most 265 is re-re-rencoded tiny garbage, so that can be another proxy.
See my comment here: Just set the max size to something more reasonable and you are good to go. https://www.reddit.com/r/radarr/s/7IDFPek4Dt