Way more movies in lower resolution. Your brain and mind will fill in the blanks automatically and lack of perfect visual acuity doesn’t take away from the story one bit.
How long is a piece of string?
I used to watch movies and shows on my computer monitor, in which case 720 was mostly acceptable. Though a few years ago I switched to a NAS for storage and I use a typical TV instead… now I don’t feel the need to use smaller filesizes. I tend to go with 1080 by default. The NAS is really a godsend… you can fill that thing up with whatever your want and still have room to spare.
Definitely more at lower. I see zero point in going above 1080p and for lesser media I do 720. I have 16tb of 720-1080 stuff.
I can watch content in lower resolutions, I can’t watch content that I don’t have access to at all.
In this day and age of compression, you can get a very small file in good quality.
If your hardware will run it, MKV/265 is fantastic! Especially the 10 bit rips
Every time I pirate something x265, it looks like somebody took the pixels and threw it in the blender. Like I could notice the degredation in quality and it irritates me since it’s supposed to be 1080p.
I download the normal x264 and everything looks fine.
And I doing piracy incorrectly?
The issue is that, while x265 is more efficient, it’s not THAT much more efficient until you get to 4k or high bitrates. Encoders using x265 tend to be overly focused on file size, and prioritize it over video quality. And that sort of makes sense - x265 needs a lot more decoding power, and excludes a lot of otherwise capable devices. Why would you do that to only save a small percentage of the space needed?
265 is more bandwidth efficient than 264. If you put two video streams next to each other, 100% identical, running at the same bitrate, except one is H.264 and one is 265, 265 will look better.
265 can achieve the same visual fidelity as 264 at 20-40% lower bitrate, depending on a few factors. The trade off is you need more processing.
If either are looking pixilated, you’re getting ones with to much compression. I still try and get ones at around a gig or larger. Especially if you’re watching on a big screen. And like I said, if your hardware will run it without getting all laggy, 10 or 12 bit is good for rgb color depth
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does MKV combined with H265 really do a thing?
It do do dat thang
wat thang do it do, doe?
It do da thang it do, dawg
is it better than the H265 alone without changing the container format?
H.265 isn’t a container format, it’s an encoding format. You have to have a container to hold the encoded video stream, whether it be MKV, MP4, etc.
i know. that’s what i’m asking. which one is better, H265 with MP4 as container (since it’s the standard) or MKV as container… i do transcoding a lot but haven’t experienced using MKV as the container. that’s why i’m asking.
MKV is open, so I prefer that. My TV and Plex/Jellyfin also plays them fine. So I tend to prefer that. It’s also more powerful than MP4 if I’m not mistaken? Like it can hold subtitles and stuff? I don’t remember off the top of my head.
(Also the piracy scene tends to prefer MKV nowadays as far as I can tell. At least for larger stuff like movies and long-episode television series.)
Or AV1
My Shield Pro shits itself trying to play those at 4K though.
I never play anything in 4k simply because my eyes can never tell the difference lol
Are they that heavy?
my eyes can never tell the difference
Do you have a TV that can display 4K though?
I don’t think it’s got a hardware decoder in it for AV1. Whether it can play is very much dependent on the file.
I can’t see the extra pixels, but they tend to be the only versions with Dolby Vision, etc. I do think the HDR version looks better.
I can’t think of any device with hardware decoder for AV1. I think it’s mostly by CPU with some GPU accel.
It’s mostly handled with GPU acceleration, yes. But it’s a fairly recent addition. Certainly newer than my Shield Pro (which they don’t seem to have updated since).
CPU alone would require a decent processor. Certainly at 4K. It knows the format, but smooth playback either happens or it doesn’t depending on the file.
I agree with people saying at least 1080p but more. Upscaling is quite good now and makes little difference for the enjoyment of a film whether you can read the newspaper on the desk in the corner… Unless you’re a film buff who likes Easter eggs maybe
Unless you’re a film buff who likes Easter eggs maybe
Nah, I’d go for books and music.
I’d include video games.
You can get a small roguelike that’ll provide a ton of playtime.
A couple emulators and a few console’s entire collection of games takes up a surprisingly small amount of space.
I think I’m in this camp. I can juggle a few roguelikes if I want to check-out from reality. My guitar/piano would be my priority though, maybe I can actually finish writing the damned song.
Regardless of outage, I decided quantity is better. I currently have ~5,500 movies. If I chose high grade 4k I would only have storage for ~300 of what I deem as the absolute best of cinema. With quantity>quality I can store everything that was mildly successful.
How much space does that take?
Id probably go for a middle ground. 720 is fine by me.
Yeah there’s definitely diminishing returns but if you go too low it starts looking like shit enough to matter. 720p is probably my cutoff for that too.
Nah, you just grab a shitload of podcasts.
That is 0p resolution, and you can store a huge number of them on a small disk.
I don’t want to go lower than 1080p. Having said that, there are compression formats that can get you respectable 1080p but in smaller file sizes (1-2GB).
Depends on your goal: do you want to preserve what you can at its best, or do you want to ensure you have plenty of entertainment to go by?
I’d probably go with the lower quality. We watched TV in 480i and under for decades, and 720p is still quite watchable even today. In HEVC or AV1 you can really pack a decent collection.
More stuff in lower resolution, and focus on less-popular (or less-collectible) material.
The internet isn’t going to go out just for you, it’s going to go out for everyone (at least in your region). You’re going to be without it for the long-term, so you’ll want variety in what you can watch and listen to. But your friends and family will also be looking for entertainment, so you’ll be providing for a range of tastes over a long period.
You want to focus on less-popular / less-collectible material because trading networks will spring up, and the less-popular material will be the stuff that’s in demand. There’ll be plenty of people with a full collection of Star Trek or all the Best Picture winners, that kind of thing. But there’ll also be people who suddenly realize that they want to re-watch all of Law and Order or they’ve always meant to watch Miami Vice and now is the perfect time.
I’ll also point out that you’ve hypothesized that it’s just the internet that’s gone down. There would still be broadcast tv and radio, and I think people would re-adapt to broadcast viewing and listening.
Lower resolution and a lower resolution viewer (older TV).
i can have hundreds of movies in 1080p, thousands of pages of manga if I prefer that, my issue would mostly be music, last.fm shows that I listen to 2000 unique music in a month
