Rakly3
Hm, how about offering an additional fileserver for SLRO downloads then? I get that you need streaming servers for all the streaming but that doesn't mean that you couldn't establish a fileserver only for your own scenes (SLRO).

I'm honest with you, SLRO scenes are at least 50% of the reason why I'm here and I guess I'm not the only one. It's far more important than you might think. Netflix and Amazon etc. know that their original content is essential for their streaming platform and they do offer the best possible quality and extras for their very own content. Amazon for examples streams 4k content with Dolby Atmos sound etc. Yes, it costs more. But that's the stuff that people actually subscribe for. All the additional 3rd party content is just "goodies" for quite a few people. Same is true for SLR. So you should offer the best possible experience for your SLRO scenes, maybe more than you offer for 3rd party content.

      LordCrash 💯 Originals are 75% of the value proposition for me, and have already differentiated SLR from other studios (harem scenes for example). I think it’s very important to treat the SLRO releases with extra tender loving care. We’re not the only ones brought in by (1) Original releases (2) perhaps 20% of the other content, while (3) trying to ignore the tsunami of all the rest which is mostly garbage, and should absolutely not be treated on par with originals.

        Rakly3 Bitrate isn't everything, but I doubt any major studio uses completely unsuitable settings like shown in the video with the H264 3500Kbps Fast Option.

        There should be minor differences, because all larger studios have people that know what they are doing at least to a certain degree. So If we compare SLR with other Top 10 studios, your settings can't save 50% bitrate just by using better settings. In the best case I would expect 10% difference between Top 10 studios.

        After all, SLR doesn't use tuned settings for each scene, but rather a general scheme - if each scene was optimized individually, particularly low values would certainly be possible in some cases, but when everything is around 30Mbps, such manual tuning apparently doesn't take place.

          Rakly3 This illustrates perfectly what I'm talking about when I say bitrate isn't everything. Your encoding settings matter a lot too! You can keep the same bitrate while increasing quality.

          slr is using x265 slow preset already. you could use a slower preset but that would significantly increase encoding times for little additional quality benefit. so with that context bitrate is everything. unless slr is going to start encoding with av1...? that doesnt seem likely right now given that accelerated av1 decoding isnt widely supported...