I have an extensive movie/tv show library. Been collecting for years and is a mixed bag of media types. I would like to convert all to h265 or something similar to try and conserve space. Currently my media is sitting at around 30TB’s I know from a previous post that is not as significant as some others but converting one by one would be a nightmarish undertaking. I am hoping someone has a cli script to do the conversion.
I am currently using radarr, sonarr, lidarr and readarr for my media I know lidarr and readarr are dead and am looking for an alernative either for those or the full stack. I would also like to perform the conversion of media from the downloaded format to what is suggested to the best format.
There is a *darr program (tdarr maybe) that you can use to on-the-fly convert media, but unless you know what you’re doing you’ll just waste power/time over looking for torrents that are already HEVC. Also, depending on the age of the content, HEVC really wont save that much space.
Lidarr and Readarr DO work, but it relies on community support for it to be incredibly accurate (IIRC Lidarr uses Musicbrainz for its backend, and unless someone had added an album there you wont ever pull metadata for it) and takes a lot more time to correctly set up and configure in my experience.
There are a few guides as far as “the best” settings for media, trash guides comes to mind but his guides are aimed at having everything in “the best format” vs saving space