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RARBG like 4K rips, any group making similar sized movies? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Sorry if this was asnwered before, but couldn't find it. I can't seem to find any groups that usually release really small sized 4k rips like rarbg used to do. Movies went from ~5GB to ~20GB, and I really can't tell that much difference in quality that justifies 4x the size.

Tried some YTS rips, but the quality is WAY worse than RARBGs rips :(

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don’t bother transcoding 4k

i have a cheap 1650 that can do four 4k transcodes on the fly with no issue. It was a 100$ upgrade. Frankly, this is a bad take. Obviously every situation is different, but unless you have a family of twenty that you're sharing your server with, 4k encoding is incredibly easy to do these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The quoted rule seems to come from the Plex.tv. And the forum threat said first four rules are irrelevant these days.

The first 4 ‘rules’ generally are no longer as important as they once were, but may still be a good thing to bear in mind.

And I want OP to know that

shame that most x265 groups microsize the releases or use the x264 as source what results in low quality releases. And the few groups that do use the correct source suffer from it.