Your Movie Collection: How BIG is it?

[typ44q]

Sure seems like a hard disc media servers would trump a carousel! That's not a world I'm all that familiar with... anyone have their collection on a server?

I have started to build a server for my collection. 40TB raw and about 32TB usable with RAID 5 which should be enough space for a bit over 1,000 movies uncompressed. The ripping process is very time consuming (I have almost 600 blurays) but in the end I think it is worth it for the convenience.
Entire TV series on blu-ray take up an enormous amount of space for a single title and I have toyed with the idea of re encoding some stuff to H.265 to save space.

 

[typ44q]

All my Blurays are ripped to my UnRaid 20T NAS, along with all my music. At this point I am not ripping my 4k though as I haven't found a way to rip them.

There are rumors that someone has figured out how to rip 4K but no details yet on how it was done.

 

[GFOviedo]

I've built an 32 TB UnRaid server and I've got all of my 850 movies in there. That's not counting TV Shows. I use Plex to stream my movies.

 

[typ44q]

I've built an 32 TB UnRaid server and I've got all of my 850 movies in there. That's not counting TV Shows. I use Plex to stream my movies.

Are your movies ripped uncompressed and when you use plex to stream is it re encoding the video?
I am using an Nvidia Shield running Kodi to stream the uncompressed files from my NAS so there is no loss of quality for audio or video compared to the original blu-ray

 

[Todd Anderson]

When you guys rip, do you see or hear any quality degradation?

 

[GFOviedo]

Are your movies ripped uncompressed and when you use plex to stream is it re encoding the video?
I am using an Nvidia Shield running Kodi to stream the uncompressed files from my NAS so there is no loss of quality for audio or video compared to the original blu-ray

I have a few DVD Movies. 95% of my TV Shows are DVD quality with DD or DTS. My BD movies are uncompressed with Atmos, DTS-MA or which ever audio file(s) comes with it.

My main HT uses Plex and it stream uncompressed files. The only time Plex re-encodes anything is when it needs to. For example, my parents HT is pretty old and only plays DD / DTS. So Plex will play the DTS or DD file from Atmos or DTS-MA.

I like Plex GUI better than Kodi. Plex is pretty much run throughout my house. HT, bedrooms' smart TVs. Amazon Fire TV's, families Roku boxes etc.

 

[typ44q]

When you guys rip, do you see or hear any quality degradation?

You have options when ripping the disks. I always rip them uncompressed with the HD audio soundtracks and I play them back directly off the NAS without any re encoding so they are bit for bit exactly the same as the blu-ray.
If you want to save space you can further compress the files and compromise quality which I am not willing to do.
There is also an option to use H.265 codec which is what UHD disks use and that could in theory save space compared to a 1080p bluray without a loss in quality but I have yet to experiment with that.

 

[GFOviedo]

When you guys rip, do you see or hear any quality degradation?

There no quality loss. Mine plays just like a BD would play without all of the previews.

The only time I have audio issues is with Atmos. I've had a few movies with audio drops.

 

[GFOviedo]

There no quality loss. Mine plays just like a BD would play without all of the previews.

The only time I have audio issues is with Atmos. I've had a few movies with audio drops.

The same audio drops where present when playing from the physical BD.

 

[tripplej]

I have over a thousand dvds and maybe 25 to 30 blu ray discs. I would like to have a NAS one day in the future.. All of the dvds are in albums collecting dust. I got most of my dvds when I was younger and as I grow older, I buy less and less. I mostly stream now via Amazon prime, netflix, as well as hulu plus.

 

[GFOviedo]

I have over a thousand dvds and maybe 25 to 30 blu ray discs. I would like to have a NAS one day in the future.. All of the dvds are in albums collecting dust. I got most of my dvds when I was younger and as I grow older, I buy less and less. I mostly stream now via Amazon prime, netflix, as well as hulu plus.

Disk are becoming obsolete. I only buy movies that have a rating of 6.0 or high from IMBD / Rottentomatoe sites. Then I add them to my server. Usually my wife will eventually start selling them again. I had a lot of DVD's and BD's in my garage. My wife started selling them all to make more space.

 

[tripplej]

I agree. My plan is one day in the future is to add all of my dvds to a server. I just don't know how to build one or how to set one up. One day..

 

[Todd Anderson]

Pretty impressive that we have two members with 1000+ and 2000+ collections.

 

[tripplej]

The reason I have so many is that I used to collect all the Oscar winners so I have just about every movie that won something and then I also started to collect all of the various movies that were identified within the NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY database and then of course top anime movies..