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?

  • Caldorian@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Interestingly, In starting to look into doing some re-encodes of some of my media to reduce disk space. Ran into an interesting one as I was doing some test files where the h265 file ended up being 30% bigger than the originating h264 (1.8GB to 2.4GB, Handbrake 1080p h265 fast RF 20). All my other test files were about a 50% reduction.

    That is to say, there is no one singular set of settings that are perfect.