UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019

Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by 013a on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:08PM (#19047083)

Depends on the movie and if its 1080p or 4K, but generally I anticipate a ripped Bluray to be around 60gb.

Re-encoding them is a PITA as well. Even on a HEDT gaming desktop with a brand new CPU, the process only proceeds at 8-10fps, if that, so at least 2x movie runtime. Maybe there are some ways to involve the video card which can speed it up, but I haven't tried it.

And even if you want to and can keep the originals, you'll want to re-encode it and keep both; most Plex clients (think: Apple TV, shitty laptop, etc) simply can't handle raw 4K bluray playback.

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Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019 by Rebelgecko on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:58PM (#19048181)

ffmpeg supports a variety of hardware encoders but supposedly the quality will be worse than a CPU-encoded video at the same bitrate

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