I use tdarr for my large scale conversions to AV1 but I use shutterencoder for everything else. It’s like handbrake but friendly for working in large batches and the UI is really nice https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/ It will add H265 to the end of the name too
Today I learned yt-dlp has sponsorblock built in
Is TTS voice replication much better self hosted than it was about half a year ago? Last time I tried it didn’t sound like the person I had samples of, instead I had to use elevenlabs to get close to sounding right
Turns out it was all New Jersey the whole time
If whatever you’re doing works with av1 then I’d say go for it. I do AV1 for Plex since all of my devices can hardware decode, however I keep my own videos at h264 software encoded (for smaller filesizes) since Synology photos doesn’t support AV1.