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Originally Posted by Louie Detroit
Hey Kingpin. What software is that you’re running? I have about 20TB free on my NAS and wouldn’t mind adding some movies like that. In what file format are they stored in?
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Originally Posted by simpleman68
Mike, how well does Atmos or Dolby HD transfer? As discreet channels, I mean. Is there any compression or matrixing/downmixing of channels happen during the burn?
I have no experience with this stuff at all and have been collecting physical media for years with about 1400 titles of the highest quality available.
I know that someday folks won't be able to watch an old Eastwood flick if their streaming service drops it.
I've been thinking about setting up a NAS but it would really just be for convenience I think. Are there other benefits? Seems like it's pretty costly to setup with 4k movies being 20-40GB.
Scott
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It all depends on how you rip the disk. 4k movies uncompressed are normally between 50-80gb and BR 17-30gb. But many 4k's can blow up to 100-140gb's also as shown below.
The best and most common software is called MakeMKV. You may have seen .mkv format mentioned in many places. It's free software and you have a choice if you want to compress or not. Plus when you rip the movie you get to remove stuff like multiple languages, audio formats or bonus features if you don't want them which all save space. I rip all my movies 1:1 so no compression at all and I remove all languages except English and I remove all bonus material. So when the rip is finished you have one .mkv file unless you add subtitles (.srt file) with absolute no compression.
It's a lengthy process though and one thing to make sure you do is name the folder and file properly otherwise it makes it difficult and very time consuming for EMBY or PLEX to find all the information.
When I started I had roughly 1700 Blurays and a few hundred DVD's and some TV sets.
I had 2 internal Bluray drives and one external all going at the same time and it took me a year by the time I was done. I was also lucky as my 2 internal drives I never updated their firmware so they stayed unlocked and I was able to rip 4k's with them. Not all drives can read or allow you to rip 4k.
What I suggest is rip BluRays and DVD's but not 4k movies. 4K are for serious watching so use the disk in your Oppo. Plus 4k are a bit more involved in ripping unless you are torrenting and downloading the files and they take up 3-4x the space.
Convenience is the biggest plus. You just want to sit back and watch a movie or a tv series and you just press a button. Media servers like Plex or Emby remember where you left off if you shut off a movie and keep track of where you are when watching a tv series.
It's not cheap to startup if you are going 1:1. Easiest way but more expensive is a NAS from Synology, Asustor, Qnap etc. I always suggest buying the largest capacity one you can afford to start and start filling it with drives. When I started years ago I had the money to burn. It cost $2500 for the NAS and another $2200 for drives plus another $1000 for a proper UPS to protect it all. 6 months later I added an expansion unit $2300 and $4000 in drives.
Now if you are Computer Network and Storage literate you can do it for half the price but you need to know about RAID setups and a whole buncha other stuff I have no idea aboot. You pay for the user friendliness and easy setup when buying a NAS.
First pic is my front end which I use Emby. It's a custom CSS I copied from someone else and changed for me.
Second pic is the first 3 rows of my largest 4k movies. They range from 90gb's to 160gb's each. Roughly 80% of my 4K movies are over 60gb's each.
Third pic on the bottom shows you some info.
Size/bitrate/audio etc.
Fourth pic is Expansion unit on top, NAS underneath and external drives below. On the bottom is a rackmount 1500w/1500va Pure Sinewave UPS.
P.S. Don't forget about backups. RAID is not backup just temporary protection. I have 160tb's in external drives all hooked up also as backup. One file goes to my NAS and another goes to my backup.