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Why aren't more releases x265? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option.

While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

RARBG was so good for this, their releases were of such good consistent quality

If you search for ORARBG on therarbg site you can still find some OG releases and not random YIFY crap

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just use qbitorrent and the search feature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Didn't even know that was a thing ngl and I use qbit nox on my server. Kinda obsoletes the *arr suite

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Eh, the *arr apps are more about the freedom to be hands-off. Ideally you will just request something in a frontend like Overseerr from your phone and it will handle the rest. Or automatically grab upon release.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I only found out shortly after the closure of RARBG. Found this is the best way to find old RARBG torrents, just search for whatever then filter for RARBG or 265

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Not if you have lots of specific filters set up in the *Arr suite. So much better getting a HQ rip automatically than choosing a random one in qbit.