I recently started building a movie/show collection again on my home NAS.

I know that generally H.265 files can be 25-50% less bitrate than H.264 and be the same or better quality. But what’s the golden zone for both types? 10 Mbps for a 1080p H.264 movie? And would it be like 5 Mbps for H.265 1080p to be on par with H.264? What about 4K?

For file size: would it be 25GB for a 2 hour 1080p movie to be near or at original Blu-Ray/digital quality?

  • ZombieDancer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you really want original quality, you can just remux your discs. 1080p will already be H.264 and 4K will be H.265. I don’t really see a reason to re-encode if you’re going to end up with a 25GB 1080p video.