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Why aren't more releases x265? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option.

While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (12 children)

x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback

By a factor of 2 with the same bitrate. But you only need half the bitrate for the same quality (SNR) so it really isn't.

However, encoding is about 10x more demanding in terms of bitrate, or 5x for the same quality. This may be worth it for long-term storage or wide distribution over limited bandwidth (torrenting), but not for one-time personal use.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (11 children)

For a Jellyfin server however it's quite a boon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Did you do something specific to play x265 on JellyFin? Last time I tried, the video kept crashing every 5-8minutes, even with a low bitrate threshold.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which client? Works fine here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

JellyFin App for Android TV (on a Shield)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is an option to use an external player. So you could use VLC as an external player and use it. It would work better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I tried that, but the result is the same (and progress doesn't seem to be saved). Maybe it's specific to the Shield or to my files

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