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1 month agoTranscoding media is great for saving space. My server has but a humble ancient 1TB hard drive (shared with other storage uses). From a DVD (mpeg2), an episode of this one TV show is 1.6-1.8 GB. After transcoding to AV1, it’s 200-400 MB, and I can’t tell the difference in quality. (consider that’s per episode so over an entire series that’s many GB of space saving!)
I use Veronica Explains’ helpful HandBrake guide, she provides some settings for AV1, which work very well for me (I just saved it as a new preset).
https://vkc.sh/handbrake-2025/
And you can do batches of files by opening a directory and adding all. I haven’t tried OP’s tool so I don’t know how it compares to HandBrake, but that works fine for my use case.
I’d definitely agree here. In general, stuff where multiple processes need to talk to each other but are in separate containers is frustrating. So modding tools stumble a bit. Also, things that require login via a browser, which then redirects back to the application (for example, Unity opens a login page then goes back) - when it’s running through Proton or in a container, it’ll open in the browser on the host system, which then can’t get back to it.
That may just be a me being stupid issue, but it’s annoying.
Still keep using it because it’s great, and no ads or crap is lovely.