#shutter encoder

[netscapenavigator-official]

I downloaded an entire 20-Season series via a torrent. The torrent came in around 160+ GB. After re-encoding everything as AV1 via Shutter Encoder, it's currently on path to being around 55 GB when it's complete.

This shit's crazy. I wish torrent makers would utilize modern codecs and file types before seeding them. It'd sure save a lot of bandwidth, data, and time downloading 7zips and AV1 media, rather than ZIP and H.264/5 media. And, like, given that 7zip is open-source and VLC supports AV1, and both are free and open-source, there's literally no excuse.

[netscapenavigator-official]

I saw a post about how good WEBP was, and I thought to myself, "maybe I've been unfair. I should give it a chance," so I translated all the hundreds of photos and GIFs on my Jellyfin server to WEBP to see what would happen. Here are the results:

PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc: 2.12 GB

JPEG & GIF: 1.45 GB

WEBP: 1.28 GB

WEBP & GIF: 1.22 GB

For some reason, Shutter Encoder seems to break Animated WEBP files. Not only did it double their size, but it also prevented macOS or Firefox from playing them correctly, so I went back to GIF. It ended up saving more space, anyway

In the end, however, I'm actually really surprised. Using WEBP allows me to preserve a lot of my photos in Lossless compression, all while taking up less space than my current, total JPEG, 100% Lossy setup. WEBP, especially for data storage and server management, actually seems to make a lot of sense, and I'm probably gonna end up using it for the files on my Jellyfin server from now on.

[netscapenavigator-official]

So, like I said I was, I'm re-encoding all the videos on my Jellyfin server as AV1 to save space. I've been doing that for about 4-5 days, straight, at this point. So, I'm gonna give a progress update at just how far I've gotten in those 4-5 days.

So far, I've managed to re-encode a singular folder that was about 13.72 GB.

I still have many other folders to go, that all total up to about 109.12 GB.

I'm going to be here forever.

On the bright side, re-encoding the videos as AV1 fixed some of the corruption that caused a lot of them to become unplayably stuttery.

Also, what I have finished re-encoding was once 10.15 GB. It is now 7.70 GB. So, while it is taking forever, I have managed to save over two whole gigabytes by simply running my videos through a program that essentially makes my computer get hot.

So with this level of success without even scratching the surface, I'm excited to see how much space I'll save when all is finally completed.