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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ebits21@lemmy.ca to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml
 

Release target is tentatively mid April according to here..

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Buy Blurays and rip them to your machine. From there copy them into Jellyfin.

You will need a Bluray reader, Handbrake and MakeMKV

[–] clemensg@digitalcourage.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

@possiblylinux127 @Bluefalcon

In this order:

  1. Rip the BluRay-Disk (or DVD) with MakeMKV, you will got the film with all languages and subtitles in one MKV-File;
  2. Shrink the MKV-File with Handbrake and save it as H264/H265 or better as AV1 (better because open-source and the future).

#Film #Movie #rip #Bluray #MKV #MakeMKV #Handbrake

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Do not use AV1 or at least don't use it as of now as it isn't supported my most devices. I think there is exactly one phone that supports it as of now

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

I know the nVidia Shield doesn't have it, and I'm not replacing that any time soon.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

Eh, Chromecast has AV1 and so do some smart TVs already. If that is your primary watching platform, encode away in AV1 and get an Arc A380 for the rest. It will also massively decrease encoding times.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Untrue, all my devices support av1 at this point, so that's only your mileage.

I am happy with av1 and its awesome space savings over h264.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Over h264 sure, but h265? Hardly worth it for me.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago

In my experience the saving over h265 is still consistent and given that hardware h265 is less common that av1 on new devices, from h264 there is no need to go h265 but directly to av1 is better if you need to do the job.

Keep h264 otherwise.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not sure what devices you have but if they were made before 2023 you likely are using software decoding.

[–] clemensg@digitalcourage.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

@possiblylinux127
@PM_Your_Nudes_Please
@Bluefalcon

A lot of newer Android-TV-Settop-Boxes are ready for AV1, for example products from Orbsmart.de like my Orbsmart S87L.
On that box is Kodi preinstalled and you can install everything from android-stores, also the Jellybin-client.

Don't forget: Jellybin is a very good open-source-software, but a client-server-system. So you need Hardware for the server-software.

#Jellyfin #Kodi #Orbsmart #AndroidTV #Settopbox #AV1

[–] ReversalHatchery 3 points 8 months ago

You also need hardware behind the client, for it being able to do hardware decoding. Unless you want the server to constantly transcode everything you watch, for all phones and PC clients..

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

*Jellyfin

My point is that H264 is well supported everywhere so I personally am in no hurry to switch. Non of my devices support AV1 so it is a waste of my time for the most part.

What's worse is when I first started a bunch of people recommended AV1 which lead to Jellyfin not working.

[–] jlow 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also of you can stand the quality check out DVDs in charity shops or second hand online (Ebay etc). (And give away / resell after you made a "backup".)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To keep a copy of the media in Jellyfin you need to have a physical copy with the server. You also probably shouldn't share it with friends unless you are living together.

[–] InternationalKnee69@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You may need to keep the physical copy for it to be legal or moral according to your own ethics but from a purely technical standpoint there is absolutely no need.

[–] jlow 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, fair, but depending on where you are you're already in illegal territory if you're circumventing DRM on the discs (e. g. Germany, I think).

(And how likely is it that I 1. get busted for pirating when not torrenting/downloading and 2. will make the copyright trolls believe me that I actually legally bought this movie at a charity shop five years ago? Has that ever hapenend?)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

My technical needs are heavily dictated by legal obligations