I don’t place my speakers in the right spots, but luckily (like Sonos and others) room correction software really helps with this. Especially after A1Evo.

Soundbars are a great solution really, I never understood the negativity towards them. It’s all I recommend to my friends as I know they are unable to comprehend what a receiver is and then what speakers to get and let’s not go into subs.

Where you rocking the vcr+ codes or manually recording?

Does this mean review/benchmarking sites need to reevaluate all chips after os updates or at least publish the versions used while testing?

What’s the keyboard in the back?

That’s true as well. I’m using an older 7th gen Intel for remuxing, but do software AV1 encodes which take like 11 hours lol

Good move.

I find software reencoding/remux instead of doing it on the fly is easier for my brain to manage over alignment of the hardware stars.

I have this all the time when I’m on my mullvald vpn. Makes me want to not use it half the time :(

Ahh, yeah that could be an issue. It takes my laptop like 11 hours to encode one of the Lord of the Rings Blu-ray. I also change the audio to eAC3 while I’m in there for better client support.

There is a trade off between just getting more storage and reencoding. I enjoy seeing the results of the re-encodes, but it’s more cost effective to just get a larger hard drive.

You can play in handbrake with AV1 encoding to see how it goes. I think I set the compression to 36 or something.

Yeah, from the re-encodes I’ve done, I only noticed artifacts in clouds and the New Line Cinema intro to lord of the Rings

Playback has pretty wide support by now.

Yes, AV1 is the next big deal. You can compress the hell out of the video and it still looks near original. I’ve re-encode some of my locally ripped movies for fun to see how it looks and it’s really impressive.

Yeah, if the streaming providers ever switch over to AV1 that would be an interesting comparison.

Yeah, doesn’t everyone use a VPN in some form by now?

Are they switching to use Whatsapp?

Yeah, I can’t find some kid shows, maybe I have the wrong provider.

I noticed you are having an issue finding a partial language of content, you could extract the audio track from the DVD and add it to the copy you find on the seas.

makeMkv first and handbrake to compress. When using handbrake make sure to pick video and audio formats that work for your clients. I recommend h265 and eAC3 audio.