I see this. How does it work?
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So I'll be honest with you, this is something I'm still fucking tuning. 😅
But somewhere in the settings, you can set download profiles. And you can set one as your default. So for instance, my default is a profile that ranges from 1080 to 2160 or whatever the next step up is.
And the way that I think about those slider settings is how much bandwidth I'm willing to spend on a particular movie/ show. Like if I'm getting a 1080 movie with 5.1 surround, I don't mind having to be 5 or 10 gigs, give or take. And so if you think you take your average movie as roughly 2 hours, you set that to a slightly over 10 gigs for a max. And leave the lower setting alone.
Ok I think I set it up. I’ll see if it works with the next download. Thanks!
Good luck. Things can be a little bit hinky Depending on your sources, I was grabbing something for my sister and wasn't paying attention, and it downloaded French and Spanish versions. 🤣
Yeah, the default setting were grabbing 35 Gig movies for me. I had to change that.
I set all the ones up top to 1000 Bytes/hour because that gets me decent 1080p video quality.
The 720p around 600 Bytes/hr
And 480p at 480 Bytes/hr
Hmm ... I just noticed it seems setting them to the vertical resolution gets decent video quality.
For 1080p, set 1080 B/hr
For 720, set 720B/hr
for 480p, set 480B/hr
I don't do 4K. Don't have that much bandwidth or hard drive space. Maybe 2160B/hr would do the trick. I don't know.
Same for sonarr roughly I imagine?