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LiveWire68

Quality and Bandwidth

This really isn't totally about Syncler. My internet was 25/2. So I usually set syncler to watch movies around 12GB and lower. More or less had pretty good quality. I luckily got Starlink 4 days ago.

So I bumped my bandwidth up too 100. What amazes me is how some 70GB movies dont look any better then a 10GB movie and dont even have surround. WTH.. Seems like in the few days ive used it around 20gb is the sweet spot for all of it. Just a observation.

EDIT: Love how this turned into your hardware isn't good enough to tell the difference. I may not have a 30k system, but its above average.....

Posted Feb 18, 2022, 4:09 PM UTC · edited

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Lower_Fan•

yes I find 20GB h265 are the sweet spot a lot of these 50+GB remux movies are h264 with tons of audio tracks

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LiveWire68OP•

Yea, I should of mentioned H265 for 20GB, but even the 50+ h265 seem a waste.

I do wish syncler had someway to prioritize h265 links over others. Or maybe I haven't looked far enough.

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International-Oil377•

You can filter out h264

The main difference in these big files is that usually contain lossless audio, and have less compression when a lot of things is happening on the screen

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LiveWire68OP•

ill try that, Guess I did know that was there. But my wife tends to watch alot of older episodes that youll rarely see h265 versions of. Looks like it still pulls up h264 stuff though.

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International-Oil377•

If h264 is the only thing available it will still show up

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nikolala•

You have barely any 50+GB remux which is h264. h264 remux movies are 1080p and they range from 15 GB to 35 GB... and very rarely some gets to 40 GB, but that is extremly rarely.

50+ GB are common for HEVC 4K (2160p) remuxes.

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je1992•

We have many infos missing in your statement that 20gb files look the same as a remux of 120 gb.

One: What TV do you have. The bigger and better quality your tv is, the more you can actually notice small incremental in differences from one quality to another

Two: What kind of sound system do you have. Again, the bigger quality setup you have, with many channels, Amps, AV receivers, etc. the more you will actually notice lossless audio in Atmos versis regular 5.1 dolby digital

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LiveWire68OP•

Samsung 82" ru 9000 series, Yamaha adventage rx-a6a setup in 5.2 (atmos) all going through a nvidia shield pro. Id probably notice it.

Edit: and im not saying all 100+ GB files, but ALOT of them are lower quality then the others.

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virmele•

I would guess most big size files are hdr/dolby vision, and your tv isnt really capable of displaying both

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LiveWire68OP•

sadly samsung wont get on the dolby vision band wagon. So just hdr

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virmele•

Yes, but even hdr, your tv has a brightness of like 300-400nits max, no local dimming, any hdr content will look worse than sdr

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aandras•

For better quality it's not only te file size but the bit rate which carries more information

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Available_Conflict82•

Alot of it has to do with encoding. Some ppl do it better then others. And from the original source. If they ripped it from a true 4k source it's gonna look a lot better then most at larger file sizes if proper encoded. Also I have noticed that most movies don't really see a benefit from standard HDR to dobly vision. Things like planet earth have the most striking difference because of the vibrant colors in nature. Movies can be darker or have a digital filter to make it look more prestige. Netflix does this on aost all their shows.

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LiveWire68OP•

Agreed, and kind of the whole point of the original post.. some do it substantially better then others. I ripped a few things back in the day, guarantee I could do a dvd that looks like a 640x480 movie from 1980 and would probably be 500GB

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nikolala•

It is all about video bitrate for picture quallity. The higher video bitrate the better video quallity. Size can be bloated with audio format like DTS-HD or TrueHD.

Also there is technical point of view at this where you can compare screenshots and see the difference between encodes, but in practice some details and differences can be hardly noticable and that depends from a couple of things. How much your eye can detect details, from which distance you are watching your tv, how big your screen is or how much you care for sharp details or you just wanna sit and watch movie.

The rule is that remux is the best quallity in both video and audio. Practically it is full blu-ray disc converted into .mkv file without some extras which comes with full bd.

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