Why does it seem torrents are getting more and more heavier? It's absurd now 2 single episodes will take 1GB of space, 1080p doesn't contribute much more to image quality and the bloat of FLAC audio is unforgiveable.
How the fuck do you guys store your shows? Do you have a stack of multiple 8TB hard drives? How do you even organize the thing?
>inb4 nobody rewatches anything anyways
I assumed Crunchy just upped their quality.
>download
>watch
>delete
Easy.
I avoid anything over 720, I'm happy enough with lower
>want to rewatch it
>have to dl it again
>want to eat cookie
>but want to have cookie too
>want to rewatch it
>no more seeders
No. Everyone is laughing hoarders now, but the future belongs to the hoarders.
Daiz wants you to buy more HDD's.
>archiving cr rips
disk is getting pretty cheap
actually, I need to buy some disks, I'm running out of space since I had a 2TB drive begin to fail on me, and the other disks I had are now nearly full since they've got most of what I had on the 2TB plus what the drives already used to have
tfw no income right now because corona-chan -- would have bought some disks now if there was an end to this shit in sight, gotta keep my savings for food
>not downloading 240p .mp4 seasonal anime episode and watch at 2x speed
Fucking normies
Tell me about hi10p
Google Drive
Then just keep the good episodes. Who the fuck wants to hoard midseason episodes of the latest isekai show?
>using cloud storage
>ever
have fun getting popped for copyright infringement/CP
What alternative is there? This is as bad as the fag who rips apart the live action segments of gal to kyoryuu.
Funimation does all the official subs now, and they can't encode properly ever.
The problem is not what is cheap. The problem is Archiving. How the fuck will you easily access to those files in the future? You'll wade through your multiple donuts of 50 disks each? How are you going to orderly store files in multiple HDDs?
>He doesn't own his own files
There are encodes of 1080 BD batches where the episodes are 500 MB each. Then there are other batches of the same thing by someone else where it's 1.3 GB per episode. I've seen some where the uploader is a fucking retard and made 2.1 GB each episodes.
Then there's the fact that horriblesubs crunchy/funi rips used to be 350 MB like 5 years ago but now range from 600 to 700 MB. I just chalk this up to the encodes being shit.
Compression is a lost art. It's happening with video games too.
If only there was some way to create a redundant array out of inexpensive disks...
Who would download the latest isekai show in the first place? If you keep only good episodes you'll end up with incoherent shit. Besides, shows are rarely episodic, aside from SoL which are a waste of time to watch in the first place, and comedy which is rare to find every season
>HDDs for archiving
>he doesn't burn everything to 25gb M-Discs
shiggy diggy
Is H.265/HEVC too good for you? A single Dual-audio episode in 1080p will be roughly 300 MB.
But that's with lossy audio tho
If only there were settings you could tweak to reduce the size by half.
That's right. Too bad there isn't, so how else are you going to store the files?
> It's absurd now 2 single episodes will take 1GB of space
get on my level
>watch shitty HEVC release
>skip somewhere
>minor lag
Every time.
It's not like you're going to copy those over and over for eternity.
Just re-encode them after downloading, you're not going to seed anyway.
>One season of shitty seasonal anime takes as much space as the most recent yearly bloated Assassins creed game
You know some anime compresses better than others, right? If everything were the same size, that would be retarded.
>video games
That's how they used to do it when I was younger, and that's how they should do it now.
av1 will fix this.
Works on my machine
The death of funsubs had led to a drop in anime encoding quality.
If you are talking about the fact they they rather store it uncompressed, that's because uncompressing 2GB of textures at runtime is pants on head retarded. It would take minutes to do that between scenes. And it's not like the size would magically drop to 1/10th either.
Wait, I didn't read your post properly.
Different encoders have different workflows and also different opinions on acceptable filesize/quality tradeoffs. Some want their encodes to look exactly the same as the BDs at half or a third of the size, while others might be fine with unnoticeable differences in quality that let them reduce the size by half again.
Some attempt to filter out only encoding defects while others might try to remove dynamic grain. There's no simple answer.
There is a simple solution, however: just download whatever works well for you.
Literally any anime with action scenes would look like garbage. No thanks.
Just download good encodes.
user just said they didn't want CBR ones, yes.
This, bring back piss-yellow hard subs
Just store your anime on LTOs bro
And – although this is probably obvious – plenty have no idea what they're doing and end up producing bloated or starved encodes.
I miss those shitty blurry subs. Soft subs are too sharp and hurt my eyes.
What does any of that shit care when at the end of the day you'll download whatever is put in front of you? Seriously, these are not your family pictures to preserve in the most pristine state as heirlooms, this is fucking seasonal anime we're talking about, just bring down the damn size so i can show it to my nephews or something.
Add blend-subtitles=yes to your mpv.conf.
Though this won't help if you're watching 1080p on a TV or monitor which is only 1080p (or if you're watching 4K anywhere, but that's a less common thing and probably will be for years if not decades).