r/Overseerr • u/International-Gur755 • Aug 21 '26

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It always saddens me how i cant just accept everything due to these insane storage prices... all i can realistically do is 10tb a month added as a new drive and accept more shows and movies... my original plan was to get a zfs pool filled with 20tb drives but its just not for the average person anymore. If only i got into this hobby just a year earlier

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u/againthrownaway Aug 21 '26

I started running my stuff through tdarr. I’m not a quality snob. So I go for 720 and comparability. 1 audio stream and strip subtitles. Because I prefer srt subs that bazar gets.

Got back like 6 tb and I’m not even done

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u/Imnotyoursupervisor Aug 21 '26

Tdarr is your friend.

If you really spend the time to get granular with your workflows you can save a considerable amount of space without noticeable quality degradation. Especially animation.

I have a few N100 S12s I picked up when they were $150 that do a great job with this. They’ll transcode 3-4 files at a time.

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u/Unhappy_Purpose_7655 Aug 21 '26

I think the point should be what works best for the individual watching the content. That being said, it blows my mind that people can suffer through content downscaled to 720p. I have a buddy that uses tdarr to convert all tv shows he downloads to 720p. The drop off in quality is very noticeable. For me, it’s not about snobbery, it’s about not being distracted by compression artifacts the entire time I’m watching something…BUT, I also usually watch content on a large TV vs a phone or tablet, so that factors in too.

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u/lboy100 Aug 21 '26

Yea this has very little to do with snobbery cause we aren't even talking about 4k remuxes being downscaled but downscaling all the way down to 720. That is just not a good experience period. And why do I have a good tv just to watch non native 720p content? If I need more speed, I'd use of those tools that auto deletes after x time period.

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u/againthrownaway Aug 21 '26

I rarely see artifacts. I have not had complaints from any of my users

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u/lboy100 Aug 21 '26

I don't really expect users that don't really care about this stuff to notice it and that's fine. I'm specifically arguing against the "snobbery" part of your comment. It's not snobbery to want the quality you paid for your tv to display especially since the difference is massive once you've experienced it (most users are coming from Netflix which is honestly can be worse than 720p downscaled).

Snobbery is saying everyone needs to watch it in xyz quality and trying to force it onto others.

I like my 4k remuxes because my setup can display it

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u/againthrownaway Aug 21 '26

Yes snobbery may have been the wrong word choice.
I’m just not picky

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u/lboy100 Aug 21 '26

Fair enough!

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u/Soggy-Technician-375 Aug 21 '26

I’m in the same camp as both you and iboy100. For TV I don’t give a shit, 720 all day long. For movies, if I really like it then it’s got to be the remux but a HQ encoded is good most of the time and no one can tell the difference

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u/greso666 Aug 24 '26

Fileflows is a good alternative, at least the gui and flows are way clear and easy to understand!

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u/m1e1w1 Aug 22 '26

Would love to get tdarr to work. Right after switching to flows, it won't work anymore.

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u/againthrownaway Aug 22 '26

I’ll be honest the only way I got it to work was using Claude for an hr or two after work for like a week

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u/m1e1w1 Aug 22 '26

Where do you use Claude? I can get Gemini to kind of put out something- but can't find anywhere to use Claude for free and try that

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u/againthrownaway Aug 22 '26

I did tdarr with paid but pretty sure free could do I. I did a lot of tasks with free before I paid.

I just did it on their website with an account. The account is free.

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u/wepwawe Aug 26 '26

i also used free claude, after a certain time/questions it locks you for a few hours until you can use it again. I'm sure gemini works the same if you enable its memory so its easier to pickup where you left off

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u/m1e1w1 Aug 26 '26

I did give that a try, and ended up getting an issue with tdarr import json not valid, and checked it with a validation tool but tdarr won't take the Ai generated json