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My dad downloads x264 in 720p sometimes by accident and he say the 1gb file is too big so before he watches it he will open his old version of DivX official converter software and encode it into 480p with some really low bitrate 'fast encode' setting that makes his 1gb mp4 into a 300mb avi. The blocks are so huge and noticeable it makes me think he's watching .RM files from the 90s lol but hey at least he saves room on his NAS right?

I am using x265 hardware encoding... I'll rip it all, queue it up and just let it run for days as needed.

Agreed, GPU encoders are pretty bad... I cannot comment on RTX was all I said, which is supposed to be much better than GTX was.

I think gamers/streamers get the most out of hardware h265 encoding, since they aren't as likely to just add more hard drives. And you probably can't spare the CPU power for software encoding, even at fast presets.

Most streamers use a dedicated capture card to do encoding/streaming.

Probably not. The established streamers might.