I meant visually web vs disc. To me, a 4k 15 Mbps web-DL is visually 99% as good as a 60+Mbps UHD BR remux.
Web-DL may not be how I want to watch something like Interstellar (shot on 70mm film) but is probably fine for something like 7 Fast 9 Furious Tokyo Zoom Zoom (shot on Vin Diesel’s iPhone, probably)
Is the
h264orx264part of the name the bitrate?
No, that’s the encoding algorithm, aka codec. As another person pointed out, AVC/h264/x264 (all different names for what is effectively the same thing) is a lot easier to process than HEVC/h265/x265 (again, different names, same end result).
Bitrate is just the overall file size divided by the movie duration, basically indicating how compressed the movie is, with compression coming at the loss of finer details. You can generally gauge bitrate based on file size. A 5000 Mb file that is 1000 s long is, on average, 5000/1000=5 Mbps.
Since you’re very clearly not picky, you’re probably best off going for 720p or 1080p content with small file sizes (1-5 GB / movie). Feel free to download smaller though, if it doesn’t impact your experience, just make a mental note if you ever find anything that is too small for you to tolerate, and set your minimum file size somewhere above that.
Based on your criteria, you probably want to steer clear of terms like Atmos, TrueHD, DTS-MA, and DTS-X. These are all terms for different flavors of totally uncompressed audio, which alone can be up to 5GB of unnecessary (for you) added disc space for a given movie. Instead you want compressed audio like DDP, AAC, or AC3
DivX/XVID are really old video codecs, kinda like x264. I wouldn’t fuck with them even with your preferences unless you have no other choice, given your average potato nowadays can handle x264.
TL;DR, based on your preferences, look for / avoid these terms, but know not all files have all of the same fields identified:
GOOD
Video
AVC/h264/x264
720p or 1080p
8-bit (you’ll want this over 10-bit, if specified)
Audio
DDP, AAC, or AC3
Overall
1-5 GB file size / movie
MEH
Video
DivX/XVID
Overall
Be mindful of files smaller than 1 GB / movie, they may be fine for you but this is where you can really start to see some gnarly banding
AVOID
Video
HEVC/h265/x265 or VC1
2160p
HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, DoVi, or DV (not mentioned earlier but these need special, more modern, displays)
Audio
Atmos, TrueHD, DTS-MA, and DTS-X
Overall
Really large or comically small files.
Unfortunately quality is entirely subjective. What you may think is fine, I may hate, and vice versa.
Generally speaking, for a given movie, quality and bitrate are linked, but two movies with the same bitrate likely don’t have the same quality because of a myriad of factors.
For me, with a few limited exceptions of movies I know like the back of my hand, I have a really hard time distinguishing between a good 4K webrip (15-20 Mbps) and remux (40-80 Mbps), so I have no issue keeping the majority of my library encoded at ~18Mbps
Unfortunately there’s no quality magic wand, but if you find a release group that does encodes you like, try to get to their home tracker and just let them handle it.
If you’re good with 1080p non-HDR content, for your use case you probably want to focus on “AVC” aka “H.264” or “x264” encodes of decent bitrate. HEVC yields better quality than AVC for a given bitrate, but comes at the cost of being much more intensive to encode and decode, which may be a source of problems for your 10 y.o. box. If your bar is “tell what’s happening”, you can go to pretty low bitrates.
Handbrake is a robust piece of software, but it’s really not beginner friendly because the automatic encoder settings will just absolutely ruin whatever you feed it.
If you’re on windows, check out StaxRip for encoding
But would you still watch anyways? It seems silly to me to watch a game you’re boycotting then just go around pretending you didn’t. Who did you watch for? Who are you actually lying to?
The folks over at XDA have rooted the original Hibreak and are actively working on trying to reverse engineer the display drivers so they can install LineageOS. The person working on it right now has a good track record with other e-ink phones.
I wouldn’t pull any triggers until it’s released, but worth watching that activity.
ETA: https://xdaforums.com/t/bigme-hibreak-root-mediatek-6765.4697830/page-7
Not sure I understand the boycott but still watch crowd. Sure, not watching makes viewership go down a tick, but the Superbowl is so cultural, every hallway “did you see the game” helps push those viewership numbers right back up
Dear lord I can’t believe this is only now becoming a feature - those redirect spammers are the worst! What do you gain from making my life more difficult? I just close the tab and search again, this time with your website blacklisted.
Just in case you want to do nothing, nowhere in particular.
What about an Excedrin?
And if OP’s password vault is their Firefox account? Somehow some way you have you remember at least one password!
My guess, without reading the article, is that they will just require input apps on the Play Store targeting Android 16 with AI features to respect some sort of allowAIInput = false flag
I’d wager side-loading and 3rd party app store apps will be ignored, but those apps will probably do it anyways to keep their Play Store releases.
Hmm, feels like it’s missing stuff. Does disc go shiny side up or down?
No sharing in Notesnook
MKVToolNix is the right answer, BUT if you plan on sharing your Linux ISOs with the wider community you may not want to edit the original file.
Not sure what you’re watching on, but Plex lets you set a preferred audio language per-user, while Jellyfin and Kodi support external audio tracks as long as they are properly identified, so you could extract/find the English track you want and just toss it in the same folder
You’re not going to like this, but I have been encoding my own B-tier collection in 1080p at roughly BluRay quality with HDR & Uncompressed audio. A-Tier movies stay 4K Remux, but the B-squad gets the downgrade (but I’m not willing to give up HDR / Atmos)
Jokes on them, my phones stupid fingerprint reader only works about 3% of the time. They’ll get frustrated and give up before finding anything, I know I usually do.
New OS is a waste of resources, but it would be great to see them embrace something like GrapheneOS
Can you elaborate on your request? What feature is it lacking that other browsers deliver on?
Cool story bro. I once ate pineapple while watching a Golden Girls rerun.
It’s possible. Just make a LinuxISO (Year) folder in your movies directory and it’ll pick up the movie file within, regardless of name.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/
Naming only matters within folders if you have multiple versions.