In most cases, most release groups already fine tune encoding settings towards various balances of file size and quality, so the best option is to decide on a set of release group whose standards meet your needs and just use the files as they come without further modification.

Applying lossy compression to a video that’s already had lossy compression applied to it degrades it unnecessarily, so if you’re going to compress it yourself, it’s best to start with the remux, aka the original media file.

I’d personally recommend releases from members of the qxr group and Vyndros.

While I agree entirely that they’re not free per-se, if it weren’t for them, there would be nearly nothing to post for anyone who doesn’t want to use the Epic Games Store.

Lemmy communities are already at a disadvantage to subreddits in terms of attracting and retaining users, so I don’t think fracturing communities further than they already are across instances is beneficial.

While I admittedly haven’t tried using Arctic’s regex filtering options yet, if other Lemmy clients have similar functionality, I would imagine a filter for any post that includes “[Prime/” or “[Prime]” in the title would automatically hide the posts without the need for community fragmentation.

Was confused why the link hadn’t embedded properly; fixed the post, thanks!