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[Request] Any Guides to FFMPEG, Transcoding, Codecs, and Metadata? (leminal.space)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a collection of about ~110 4K Blu-Ray movies that I've ripped and I want to take the time to compress and store them for use on a future Jellyfin server.

I know some very basics about ffmpeg and general codec information, but I have a very specific set of goals in mind I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction with:

Smaller file size (obviously)
Image quality good enough that I cannot spot the difference, even on a high-end TV or projector
Preserved audio
Preserved HDR metadata

In a perfect world, I would love to be able to convert the proprietary HDR into an open standard, and the Dolby Atmos audio into an open standard, but a good compromise is this.

Assuming that I have the hardware necessary to do the initial encoding, and my server will be powerful enough for transcoding in that format, any tips or pointers?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are those your own blurays? Then share them before compressing.

Transcoding is hard. There is no way that your transcoding settings are going to be a one size fits all. I am currently encoding the famous iKaos Dragonball release and I did 48 samples before deciding what configuration to use.

You are better off downloading stuff from torrent, especially for newer media. You'll find a community that put 100x your time collectively on transcoding. That will also save from your tremendous electricity costs.

Also look into vmaf for quality metrics. Consider that switching to uncompressed 1080 might bring you close to your goal with very very low effort.

Btw, can you share the title list?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sure thing.

Abominable
Ad Astra
Aladdin (Live Action)
Aladdin
Alien - Covenant
Alien
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man
Aquaman
Arrival
Austin Powers In Goldmember
Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me
Avengers - Endgame
Avengers - Infinity War
Baby Driver
Batman and Robin
Batman Forever
Batman
Batman Returns
Big Hero 6
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Brave
Captain Amercia - Civil War
Captain America - The First Avenger
Captain America - The Winter Soldier
Captain Marvel (2019)
Cars 2
Cars 3
Cars
Cinderella (Live Action)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 40th Anniversary Edition
Deadpool 2
Deadpool
Detective Pikachu
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Strange
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald
Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
First Man
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen II
Frozen
Gemini Man
Godzilla (1998)
Godzilla - King of the Monsters
Gremlins
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Halloween
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Howl's Moving Castle
Incredibles 2
Incredibles
Inside Out
Interstellar
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Iron Man
IT (2018)
John Wick 3 - Parabellum
John Wick - Chapter 2
John Wick
Joker (2019)
Jumanji (1995)
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park - The Lost World
Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kingsman - The Golden Circle
Kingsman - The Secret Service
Logan
Maleficent - Mistress of Evil
Maleficent
Mary Poppins Returns
Moana
Monsters, Inc
Monsters University
My Neighbor Totoro
Pacific Rim Uprising
Paprika
Ponyo
Ratatouille
Robin Hood
Spider-Man - Homecoming
Spider-Man - Into the Spider-Verse
Spirited Away
Starship Troopers
Star Trek - Beyond
Star Trek - Into Darkness
Star Trek (2009)
Tangled
The Cat Returns
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3
The Expendables
The Good Dinosaur
The Hulk
The Jungle Book
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Lion King (Live Action)
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
The Matrix
The Matrix -  Reloaded
The Matrix -  Revolutions
The Predator
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Secret World of Arrietty
The Shining
The Wizard of Oz
Thor
Thor - The Dark World
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4
Toy Story
Turning Red
Up
Us
Venom (2018)
Wall-E
Waterworld (2019)
Wonder Woman
Wreck-It Ralph
Zootopia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

yeah, I would redownload all of those instead of transcoding. They are all available with very good encodes publicly