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In reply to "BillFrugge" who wrote the following:
> On 2017-07-09 18:05:51 +0000, **PCZ** said:
>
> > In reply to "BillFrugge" who wrote the following:
> >
> > > On 2017-07-08 18:47:49 +0000, **PCZ** said:
> > >
> > > > I am experimenting with x265 encoding ATM.
> > > > One thing i can say is that it is slow/very very slow.
> > > > Unless you use an Nvidia GPU, then it is fast but the quality is very
> > > > poor.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully what i am encoding will match closely the first four seasons
> > > > i posted.
> > > > I am very tempted to tag the rips but i haven't.
> > >
> > > x265 looks attractive. The smaller size is certainly lighter on my
> > > isp's data cap, and it would allow me to pack more on my drives, but I
> > > don't think my WD media player can handle them.
> > >
> > > I'm running an experiment now. A 50min episode to 720p x265 is expected
> > > to take 1.5 hours to encode with VidCoder. That might not be practical
> > > for my own rips...
> >
> > Wellcome to Club Patience !!
> >
> > Most of the leechers enjoying these x265 downloads have no idea how long it
> > takes to encode.
> >
> > I have fast computers and it makes me cry.
> > I did a season of Elementary yesterday and it took around 9 hrs with
> > StatXrip.
> >
> > Today i did a season of Alias and it has taken longer around 12 hours.
> >
> > Choose the wrong settings and you could double or triple those times.
>
> Yes you can. I had sync issues on one set until I changed audio
> formats. I think it took about 4 rips before I got it right.
>
> i5-2400 @ 3.10GHz using 64-bit Windows 7 on 8GB RAM. I think an hour of
> dvd program takes about 10 minutes, while a blu-ray episode (at 720p)
> takes about 25-30 minutes. That last experiment took 1 hr 27 minutes to
> create a 1GB 720p file with x265. I re-ran with x264 and ended up with
> a 1.45GB file that took 30 minutes.
>
> Started years ago using a drawn out process using several programs
> until I found dvdfab, then switched to handbrake and finally vidcoder.
> Even reauthored a few dvds in the process, converting R2 to R1 and
> HDDVD to Blu-Ray. I don't think I'll ever need to do that again but I
> still keep a copy of ifoedit just in case...
>
> WIthin the last few years I started ripping a lot of my own discs just
> to have them available on demand. (This started with Doctor Who!) I
> usually queue several of them and let the computer work while I'm away
> from the keyboard. Annoying part is determining which episode is which
> while I'm naming them. It's all time consuming, but I've got it down to
> a routine.
The worst part is definiely renaming the episodes.
It doesn't matter how automated your tools, YOU have to do some naming.
If i am going to rip a commercial DVD set (still protected physical media)
I use 2 things.
1:MakeMKV despite it's name it is not an encoder it is a ripper.
It finds the episodes on the disc and rips to seperate files.
Output from each disc needs to go into a different directory, not much choice
really as the episodes are all called Title0x.
Time taken to do this varies dependent on how well the disc is protected.
When the first disc is done i get the next one started and rename the output
from the first.
At a minimum the titleOx files need to have to have season and episode.
IE:s03e08
no need to get fancy it just needs to be enough to allow Sonarr to catalogue
them and rename with show and episode titles later.
rinse and repeat.
2:Handbrake
Mostly i will then start loading up handbrake with the DVD rips
Directory by directory as there ripped and named.
First i take a look at a cross section of the episode rips to determine how much
cropping is required.
The bit rate to use and the resolution.
Some of the old classics can be terrible with huge black bars left right top and
bottom and an image that keeps moving left and right just for fun.
Handbrake can auto crop but i rarely allow it to do so.
All my presets use custom cropping.
I will then make a test encode or two to check settings.
No need to let them finish abort after a few minutes is encoded.
Then full steam ahead load up the rips.
I add the show to Sonarr and it downloads info from the TVDB.
Then i put the encoded files into the show directory and let Sonarr scan for
them.
As long as it recognise season and episode numbers it is happy.
Then i let it rename which tidys everything up nicely adding the episode title
etc.
If i had to add episode titles manually i would find a new hobby :)
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