Is HEVC (8-bit)/AAC a good, modern CODEC combination for rebuilding & reducing my library size without compromising quality? Helpful feedback would be appreciated.

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[–] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yes it’s good, but with AV1 hanging about then you’re WAAAY better off using that over x265.

I re-encode all my stuff with AV1. It will take a 40GB x264 rip to 3-4GB. Where as with x265 It will be around 10-15GB.

It’s a significant difference in storage size and (as far as I can tell) no obvious difference in quality.

[–] mordack550@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sadly some clients (nvidia shield tv) does not support AV1 :( right now I'm encoding some AV1 content I have back to HEVC just because of that.

[–] noim@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And most older gpu models also don’t support av1. So transcoding for these clients happens on the cpu. This is why I will continue to use x265 for now.

[–] vildis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Only NVIDIA 3000-series cards and up support hardware AV1 decoding and only 4000-series cards support both hardware AV1 encoding and decoding, so only just about 3 year old cards! source

All Intel ARC cards support both decode and encode, (released October 2022) source

AMD 6000-series cards (November 2020) support AV1 hardware decoding and only 7000-series cards (December 2022) support both hardware AV1 encoding and decoding. source

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