I’m trying to reduce the size of my video collection because I’m running out of storage.

My strategy is to look for smaller sized files to replace very large ones. When that fails, I am using handbrake to rencode. Its working, but very slowly due to my ancient computer. Redownloading is the much faster method.

Some titles, which were originally released as non-english, have existing small files, but the English audio is only available less commonly as a huge file.

Is it possible to redownload the non-english video and map the English audio onto it? It might be too much fooling around to get syncing correct.

Extra question, does anybody know how to set up sonarr/radarr to try to reduce filesize automatically? Ive been doing all the downloading by hand.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    The easiest way to do this is to use a consumer end video editor to align the audio, then export the audio only, then do the mux operation.

    • MiRRoRMaN@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      My problems with that usually go beyond that, its weird the few times in my life I tried i had the audio matching up in the beginning where I set it right, and then eventually going way out of sync. Which is weird because you’d think well its the same movie, the timing would be the same as an audio file from a different version of it, but no such luck :(

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        Different versions of movies exist. They’re typically cut differently in slight ways throughout. How out of sync?

        • MiRRoRMaN@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          Major major out of sync. You can reproduce it I suppose the way I would attempt it, and maybe you know what I do wrong in such a case:

          What I would do (to attempt doing it) is take two different versions of the movie, maybe one has good video quality but is in russian, and the other has a good english audio track with it right. And so I wanna take the audio track of the good one and lay it under the good footage in powerdirector. i’d try and find the right lineup for the audio to sync it with the video, but then eventually if you go further down the line in powerdirector (or even produce it and forward the movie like to halfway trough) the audio will be way out of sync. I think it may have to do with bitrates and stuff but I have no idea why. and heck I used to even work in the industry back in the early 90s for TV this should be a breeze for me. but this oldtimer is stupid, I think. there has to be a way to solve this, and if anyone has any suggestions you’re more than welcome to tell me because i’d love to know.