Why shouldn't I buy a couple more 5TB Hard Disks and rip my 400+ Blu-ray collection to my plex server?

Why shouldn't I buy a couple more 5TB Hard Disks and rip my 400+ Blu-ray collection to my plex server?

Go for it

Why do you have over 400 Blu-rays?
That shit will take forever

How can I speed up HEVC encoding? my system has a 3rd Gen i5, and a Radeon HD 7770.

That's piracy and illegal

like I give a damn what big government says what I can and can not do with my property.

Don't use HEVC, prefer VP9 or even AV1 if you can wait. And get a better CPU, more cores = more gooder

best I can do is i7-3770K without changing out the board.

Get four 100x CD changers and retrofit them to play Blu-rays. Get a microcontroller for the changers and write a program to select the correct disc

It's perfectly legal rip a disc you own.

what do I look like, Ben Heckindorn?

You'll never obtain skills like his with an attitude like that.

He doesn't have shit on me with fabricating and freehand welding.

Takes what, 1 hour to rip the Blu-ray (not re-encode), rounding the numbers? 17 days let's say, to rip all of them, if you could change them out as quickly as possible. I think you should build a little diy robot to switch them out. Otherwise this will take ages. You can rip them all, then encode at your leisure.

No reason, go for it.

That's not including the chances of the Blu-ray drive failing, giving extensive downtime. Unless I can find a faster drive, some of the discs are going to be locked to 2x.

why not just download the 10-16GB 1080p version online?
it's what i do.

10-16GB would take me 4 days of continuous downloading

well it's not like you're manually downloading files.
get out your client.
find an option for "max download speed" and set it to half speed.
it'll be done in 8 days.

or
if it has a scheduling option.
set it to full speed at night and when you're at work/school.
then throttle it when you're normally home.

the hardest part should be just spending an hour or 2 finding all your torrent/nzb files.

Some peopel are lucky enough to also suffer from really low data caps. The world we live in.

not people who own a 400+ Blu-Ray collection and plan on expanding their media server with a few 5TB drives.

>Why shouldn't I buy a couple more 5TB Hard Disks and rip my 400+ Blu-ray collection to my plex server?
Because blurays will last significantly longer.

I've been collecting Blu-rays for the past 10 years. And if I didn't have really, really, really, really show DSL, I'd have a really, really, really, really low data cap because I live out in the boonies.

Get back to duty and stop eating doughnuts John.

Your processor can only accellerate h.264. Use vaapi on ffmpeg for that.

What about GPU options?

I believe you are allowed to make one copy of your movies, but I don't know how legal it is to bypass content protection to do this.

If you want to make the process less tedious, you can create full copies of the blu-rays first, then you can leave your machine running for a couple days to do the encoding. Obviously you can't do this at once if you don't have enough disk space to store the full copies and the encoded ones at the same time, but you can do it in 2-3 runs.

My Server has the disc space, and it's low power. Problem is I can't put in a graphics card, no 16x slot and 1x slot is populated by a RAID card.

Sure. Buy dual E5-2670's or similar and encode them down to a manageable size. I used to encode movies using a single core Athlon, and it took all night. 16 to 20 Sandy Bridge cores should get it done in less than an hour.

With a 1600x it takes me 15hours to encode one movie in HEVC with the slow preset. If you have that many Blurays it will take you ages with an i5...

Just let it run longer, I don't believe your GPU supports hevc encoding anyway.

'cause you could get 10 or 14TB disks.
Otherwise, no real reason. Go for it.

They are pretty fast, but you'll get shitty encodes overall.

[I haven't tried the lossless profiles yet but the lossy ones are like 15-20% different between a good x.264 encode and a nvidia GPU encode).

Slow preset is kinda nice but in light of the diminishing returns vs the fast preset (it's mostly a minor loss of space efficiency on many movies) you might opt to go with fast instead.

Yea, it took 20 hours to encode a movie on HEVC on the very fast preset on my i5-3570K. If I can find a i7-3770K for a low enough price, the upgrade may be worth while.

I will need to keep the slow preset since I plan to reduce my CRF from 18 to 17 or 16, since I saw shitty frames in a recent movie with a sandstorm on screen. Fast and CRF 16 would take me too much space I think

Why not invest a bit more into a motherboard +cpu combo? There are sales very often, or you could buy a dirt cheap a320 motherboard with a 1600. It will save you a lot of time

Sure, for certain movies you might get 50-80% larger file sizes.

... even then, the question is if you don't prefer to throw more disk space (or processing power) at the issue over it taking 400 days or something to encode the movies.

Maybe try medium or fast by default and just try slow again on the movies that seem to turn out really badly in terms of size, in an attempt to at least shave off the worst bits on these larger movies?

I am on an extreme budget since I had to get on disability, starting getting tech certs, and trying to find a new job.

I might do that in the future yeah thanks. I would encode a movie 2 times if the first encode is too big but that's the price to pay

But you can afford to buy a couple 5Tb drives? Anyway in that case yeah that i7 might be the best bet!

I have money put back, besides $200 isn't much compared to a CPU motherboard combo when you need to buy more ram since I have no DDR4 ram sitting around.

My post was a joke but there was a point in the TTP or somewhere that would've made bypassing DRM illegal now that I think of it.
Trump pulled the US out of it, no?