tomspark wrote:
Makes total sense! Two levers move the needle most, and neither needs you to fuss with the sliders: 1. Stick to 1080p, not 4K. Resolution is the biggest size driver by far — a 4K movie can be 5-10x the size of the same film in 1080p. Just use a 1080p quality profile in Radarr/Sonarr. 2. Prefer x265 / HEVC releases — same picture, roughly half the file size of the older x264. SparkBox already loads sensible quality profiles for you, so you don't need to hand-tune the min/preferred/max sliders those high-end guides obsess over. For movies you've ALREADY downloaded, Tdarr is exactly the right tool — it bulk re-encodes your library to x265 automatically to shrink it. One heads-up: it's not a built-in SparkBox app yet, so you'd run it alongside your stack rather than from the dashboard. For the occasional single file, Handbrake does the same job manually.
Seez wrote:
Ah okay, I'll look into that a bit then. Is Tdarr on the "to-add" list, so the module is native to SparkBox? :D
tomspark wrote:
Honest answer: it's not on a locked-in roadmap yet — I'd rather not promise it and have it slip. But it's a sensible fit and you're not the first to want it, so I've flagged the interest. The more people ask for it, the higher it climbs the list. For now, running Tdarr alongside your stack is the way to go. 🙂