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I buy blurays, rip them and then store them on a NAS to play back via Plex. Much, much better quality than any stream from Netflix et al.
by iamacyborg 4y ago
I buy blurays, rip them and then store them on a NAS to play back via Plex. Much, much better quality than any stream from Netflix et al.
- paxys 4y agoMight as well skip the extra step and just torrent them directly. What you are doing is illegal either way, so why do the extra work?
- iamacyborg 4y agoYeah, no.
- deadbunny 4y agoMaybe in America (Land of the Free). Elsewhere in the world it's perfectly legal to backup your owned media.
- rthomas6 4y agoI thought about doing this, but I was worried about codec compatibility issues with Dolby Vision and Atmos, and DTS:whatever. Everything I've read says you need to buy an Nvidia Shield to do it right. This is probably even closer to ideal than my setup, but in the end I decided it's not worth the effort/cost vs just putting the disc in the player.
- iamacyborg 4y agoI mean, I still have all the discs too, obviously. I’ve not noticed any codec errors with my tv which is running the Android OS.
- rthomas6 4y agoThat's good. Some people seem to have issues with Dolby Vision. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/rw6mn3/what_is_the_current_state_of_dolby_vision_on_plex/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/rw6mn3/what_is_the_cu...
- account42 4y agoMeh, ffmpeg doesn't support Dolby Vision yet either so you just get the non-DV fallback but unless you have a calibrated HDR monitor you're not really losing that much.
- iamacyborg 4y agoI’m trying to think if I have any discs with Dolby Vision, I’m only buying 1080p blurays so maybe not. Most recent purchases were Dune and the new Batman movie and those both look and sound fantastic.
- rthomas6 4y agoI believe Dolby Vision is only on 4k Blu Rays, so you're probably good.
- pathartl 4y agoThis is essentially correct. I've been bouncing between different boxes and HTPCs for almost a couple decades now and the best experience I've had has always been the Nvidia Shield. The only annoyance I have is I want to reliably set Kodi as the main launcher, which is more of Kodi's issue rather than the system. But seriously, HTPCs of yesteryear are essentially dead due to Windows' terrible handling of Dolby Vision, Atmos, DTS:X, and HDR. Even though there are players that will allow you to get much better quality out of your source file on PC, the hassle of licensing and HDR modes is just absolutely not worth it.
- rdschouw 4y agoAn Apple TV 4K with Infuse app does all of this without problems and supports many kinds of storage backends.
- alexfromapex 4y agoI think this is what everyone should do instead of "buying" or paying for subscription services
- rendaw 4y agoHow do you handle the storage for this? One bluray disk is about 60gb. I'm not sure if movies typically take 60gb but if you watch TV shows they do. 15 disks is 1TB. In a short while you're running a data center, especially if you collect a lot of video content. I've heard that you can get efficient re-encodings, but that typically means torrenting it from somewhere. I'm not aware of a way to make high quality re-encodings locally without lots and lots of tweaking/testing/re-encoding and it takes a particular set of skills.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoHandbrake, chose a profile, use a script, use a more efficient codec. Doesn’t take much manual work but computer chugs for a while.
- rthomas6 4y agoWould this work for Dolby Vision et al?
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIt uses ffmpeg underneath which can handle a large number of formats, in theory at least. You might have to sacrifice some esoteric features however.
- rendaw 4y agoDoes handbrake presets give you good space savings? I was imagining at most something in the 10-20% range.
- RealStickman_ 4y agoMost Blu Rays I have are MPEG-2. AVC compresses to about half the size for the same quality and HEVC does that again on top.
- franciscop 4y ago