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i've been thinking about using kodi as a media center for my modest but steadily growing movie collection...which i'm sure a lot of you do as well.
my question is how much storage are you using on HDD/NAS/etc,
just a quick search shows a blu ray rip can be about 50-60 GB....but to make the math simpler lets take a way high end and say a rip for 1080p is 100 GB per movie....that means a 1 TB HDD will hold 10 movies?
so how are most of you dealing with just the sheer size of storage for your collections?
i've seen people post have NAS with a few drives in them....any other ways?
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Uhh... No?
The largest Blu-Ray video disc can be is 50GB so no rip of a Blu-Ray video disc can be larger than 50GB. So rounding ABOVE 50GB is a HUGE mistake. While the typical ISO of a Blu-Ray disc can be in the range of 30-45GB, however these include all the extras. There's also 'Remuxes' which mux just the movie and an audio stream to a single MKV, stripping out the commentary, trailers, special features, alternate languages, ect, to get a movie typically around the 25GB range. And then you have re-encodes that more typically run 5-15GB.
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dpar
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About 28TB, with most movies averaging 8-12gb per movie. I have somewhere between 1650-1700 movies.
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c.5GB for a basic rip-and-recode of an animation, 7.5GB for live action, up to 10GB if you compress less and/or keep all the audio tracks (HD audio in particular sends the size north), average of 25GB for an unmodified main movie rip (e.g. Transformers 4 is 34GB native with 5.1 single audio, versus 17GB for Mr Peabody and Sherman). After that, it's a function of how many you have and/or intend to purchase...
Most of us with any kind of decent collection rapidly head into the multi-TB NAS territory - whether you re-encode or not...
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I'm experimenting with trans-coding a remux to HEVC. I'm curious what kind of size and quality results I can see. I'm a little disappointed that Handbrake is only able to use about 70-80% of my i7 4930K. But I'm averaging 14fps which is doable.
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about 17 TB total with about 650 remuxed blu rays. Average blu ray remux is about 25 gb
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Piers
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It also depends on where you live. You'll find quality of Blu-ray can vary massively between the North America releases and Europe releases.
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I hope HEVC gets to a point where it's popular to be used. It's still not as good as x264 apparently in PQ but I hope by the end of this year it'll start to replace x264.
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ertman
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Basically more drive = more movies. Otherwise compress them to be smaller will also get you there with less storage. I personally use drives and 3TB offers some of the best $/gb
There's your problem. Try either creating a script or using a GUI like Hybrid (not to be confused with hybrid encoding).
Which even then still got me to 8GB. But I really don't think I want to invest the CPU cycles in doing my own encodes 3hrs at a time. Though looking at the results, I think I'll be all over HEVC once it's popular in the scene.
