Thread 106636196

Are there any services or websites where I can use the cloud to encode my videos with my own preset settings?

>>106636196 (OP)
Just build your own FFmpeg server. It's not hard.

>>106636196 (OP)
If you really have hundreds of blu-rays to go through then you're probably better off bending the knee the Nvidia's hardware accelerated AV1 encoder which runs at like 100+ FPS. It seems to be able to produce visually lossless 1080p video around 5 Mbps which is still a whopping 75% reduction from the 20 Mbps 1080p blu-ray source.


5 Mbps = 4.5 GB per 2 hour movie
X100 = 450 GB

20 Mbps = 18 GB per 2 hour movie
X100 = 1,800 GB

Double checking my math here.

5 Mbps / 8 = 0.625 MB per second
0.625 MB per second x 60 seconds = 37.5 MB per minute
37.5 MB per minute x 120 minutes (or 2 hours) = 4,500 MB or 4.5 GB

Audio should only add a miniscule amount of data per 2 hour movie since 1 hour of 128 kbps Opus = ~60 MB

>>106636380
don't all of nvidia's av1 look like shit? I tried the highest quality one and it still didn't look half as good as x265 which is for all intents and purposes transparent for 4K at half the filesize.

>>106636690
You're confusing a hardware encoder with a CPU one. Hardware encoders will NEVER match the quality especially at low bitrates that CPU encoders like x265/SVT-AV1 can produce. However at around 5 Mbps, VMAF and subjective testing would ON AVERAGE result in visually lossless 1080p video compared to the 1080p blu-ray 20 Mbps source. Practically speaking even though CPU encoded video would save even more absurd amounts of storage space, Nvidia's AV1 hardware encoder achieves "good enough" results. Roughly 100 fucking blu-ray movies on a single 500GB SSD is like not that bad all things considered. This is arguably a very reasonable compromise for you know, encoding at 100+ FPS.

So yeah man it's like:
nvidia av1 @ 100+ FPS at around 5 Mbps for visually lossless 1080p video
or
x265 @ 10 FPS at around 3 Mbps for visually lossless 1080p video

>>106636935
if I wanted my videos to look like shit I could just remove all the settings that make x265 slow to a crawl. the only time nvidia av1 would be lossless would be if it's a cartoon or some shit with 0 details or grain

>>106637542
I'm not talking about low quality, both nvenc av1 and x265 can produce visually lossless quality. The only difference is that the latter does it at a much much lower bitrate of around 3 Mbps for 1080p instead of 5.

Anyway what I'm saying is while 3 is obviously smaller than 5 you can still cram around 100 visually lossless 1080p 2 hour blu-ray movies onto a 500GB SSD with nvidia av1 hardware encoding and in exchange for YOU KNOW ripping a 2 hour 1080p movie in like, what, 15 minutes? that honestly doesn't seem so bad.

>"REEE everyone ripping movies with hardware encoders will burn in hell for all eternity!"
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