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Now would you prefer them encoded? H.264 was certainly the best option at the time. Would you have preferred mpeg2 at double the bitrate or half the quality? Or maybe no compression and shuffle half a dozen discs to play 1 movie?
I am sure the basic requirements for bluray compatibility are easy to find. Start at wikipedia.
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don't forget blurays are designed not to run on general purpose computers, but on specialised low power chips in bluray players. They must play on lowest common denominator hardware chip. There is not a lot of room to experiment in the way anime fiends do.
Pretty sure bluray maxes at 8 bit colour.
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Gotta be honest, 4k doesn't interest me until I've got 3x the internet quota, 4x the internet speed and a 10TB HDD is under $149
furthermore, I need a 100" TV minimum :/
I do like better compression / quality in the video tho
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Re-encoding from H.264 to H.265/HEVC simply makes no sense at the moment, at about 6 hours per encode it's going to take you quite some time if you've a sizable collection. However personally I never see the need to re-encode with Handbrake or whatever, we now live in times where big storage is cheap, so why waste hours, days, weeks encoding, when the cost of a new hard disk is less that the value of my time that would be spent encoding.
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I'm starting to rip new files with HEVC and file sizes are all over the place depending on settings. I'm using Handbrake as the front-end for this and only compressing the video after ripping from a BluRay. What settings are folks finding work best? There doesn't seem to be many to tweak without putting in settings by hand in the Advanced window. I've been compressing with constant quality between 17-16.5 and am now trying the Main10 Profile. Tips and tricks to try?