What you NEED to know before touching a video file
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What you NEED to know before touching a video file - video_noob_guide.md
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I wish I saw this guide before messing with my anime collection. I mostly did three things when messing with the video files:

    1. Resize from 1080p to 720p. I actually tested it, and it reduced file sizes quite a bit.
    2. Rencode (if necessary) into H.265/HEVC.
    3. Remove non-Japanese audio tracks, and most subtitle tracks (only full subs in IT/PT/EN left).

    …granted the third one wasn’t to reduce size, it was because it’s annoying when VLC or some other software picks the wrong sub track.

    For comparison:


    Freshly downloaded, 1080p. 314MiB.


    Resized file, 720p. 91MiB.

    I feel like I reached a decent compromise, specially given my really poor sight: I can barely notice the difference, but now I can cram ~four times more anime episodes into my hard disk. But if I knew about this guide, it would be probably better, and I would not have needed so much trial-and-error to reach decent results.

    (And yes, I had to use the same scene as the guide for my own example. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, ep02, around 8:15.)