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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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x264 software vs x265 hardware encoding in 2023 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I know it`s already been talked some stuff about this, but sill i have one dilema: i want to transcode all my old stuff for better space management.

And i have the choice of x264 software or x265 hardware encoding. The x265 software encoding would take too much time and power.

Have any of you made any comparison between the 2 options ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unless your time and electricity are free, don't bother. Hard drives are cheap.

But if you can't be swayed, x264 (which is software H.264 encoding) quality will always be better at equivalent settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The time is free. It's machine time, which means that it doesn't reduce the amount of time you have to spend on other things. If we're talking about time spent doing actual work, installing something like Tdarr and pointing it at your collection is probably going to take less time than buying and installing a new hard drive.