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Hello just making a poll, which one do you prefer? personally I prefer x265 but since the rarbg falldown i've seen that almost all 1080p rips are in x264, what do you think about that, and do you recommend any place to find more x265 content beside those in the megathread?

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[–] Potato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I prefer 265 for efficiency BUT there's a certain nostalgic warmth with 264 over-compressed fuzz. Same deal as with vinyl records. It was such an improvement on xvid back in the day....

I'm on the same opinion as you, I'm super sad we lost all HEVC encodes just for 1 and 2 GB for a movie is amazing, and it is 1080p which is perfectly enough. There is nothing which will replace that for a while, I can imagine.

[–] ismail@lemmy.com.tr 2 points 2 years ago

The one most browsers supports.

[–] LimaHotel807@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m a bit of a layman in regard to video codecs, what’s the actual difference?

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[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 2 points 2 years ago

H.265 whenever i can use it

[–] pipipopo@lemmy.pipipopo.pl 2 points 2 years ago

x265 for 4k hdr
x264 for 1080

[–] fades@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Shit, I like HEVC in theory for the compression especially but it’s copyrighted bullshit or whatever.

I use Plex with lifetime pass on my QNAP NAS and it has to hardware transcode HEVC to a playable format because of said copyrighted bullshit.

It doesn’t affect me that much unless I’m trying to jump around on the media as it will need to load. The other thing is that you can have Plex save transcodes but that obviously gobbles up disk space.

tl;dr 264 = 👑

[–] h34d@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Shit, I like HEVC in theory for the compression especially but it’s copyrighted bullshit or whatever.

Isn't the same true for AVC/h264, at least in principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Licensing Might be less of an issue in practice though, idk.

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