I usually take BDRAW, transcode by myself. Or the best quality I can find. Does it look better? Not really. Just the data hoarder inside kicked in. 720p is totally fine.

And I forgot: keep you being DMCA’d by your ISP because your VPN drops momentarily.

You don’t need to fiddle with VPN, have a machine up all day that don’t cost you electricity, usually more bandwidth, and potentially downsize your home internet plan.

Drawbacks include more limited storage, paid extra, and the need to download to local.

Just to note that seedbox only works if you just view the material for a few times, not hoarding. IMHO as long as you maintain a share ratio of 2 or above you’re good to delete the file after you done with it, unless you’re on PT.

I mean, why not use a seedbox?

Then I’m sorry for not reading carefully.

I don’t understand what the down votes are for. Disagreement? What’s wrong in hoping for improvements in a 13 years gap? I understand and agree that BT over Tor is bad, but two doesn’t conflict.

I thought it is better as the focus is different: one is about “Is a blog post written 13 years ago still valid today”, the other one is “If BT protocol leaks information anyways, why VPN is acceptable but other’s not.” That’s the reasoning.

If your client or something leaks your IP it happens anyways, if you route it over one node or seven. All the extra energy is just wasted.

Yes. That’s how I see the problem.

And bittorrent puts even more strain on the TOR network the way it works. Probably making it slower for anybody else.

I understand and agree.

In the context of this question, I don’t really cares if the IP changes or if UDP supported or the network degraded. I’m asking a more fundamental one: when the data in the BT protocol contains sensitive information, then why VPN/I2P is acceptable but Tor (or other transport) are not? That sensitive info is still being transmitted. If that Tor blog is true, then no matter what we use, it is still bad for privacy.

Can you please elaborate more on my next post? Thanks. https://lemmy.ml/post/7508828

Thanks. I was hoping 13 years will bring some improvements but sadly seems like not.

Then 10 bit doesn’t offer much. It actually increase your file size.

It sounds like you’re using CPU to encode your videos. If you use AMF, it shouldn’t make you CPU work that hard.

If you can’t find it, it’s very likely not supported. While AMF support HEVC encoding, its likely support the standard 8 bit, not the 10 bit profile.

It is hard to tell as AMD is quite vague on the encoder/decoder supported per model, unlike Nvidia. At least not within my 5 minute search.

Honestly, I would advice you get a second hand 1660S if you need hardware acceleration absolutely, like Plex/Jellyfin transcode. Otherwise, I will stick to CPU as that give better overall quality at the same size.