How big is your media library?

https://twun.io/post/6565

How big is your media library? - Twunio

Background: I’ve been writing a new media server like Jellyfin or Plex, and I’m thinking about releasing it as an OSS project. It’s working really well for me already, so I’ve started polishing up the install process, writing getting started docs, stuff like that. I’m interested in how other folks have set up their media libraries. Especially the technical details around how files are encoded and organized. My media library currently has about 1,100 movies and just shy of 200 TV shows. I’ve encoded everything as high quality AV1 video with Opus audio, in a WebM container. Subtitles and chapters are in a separate WebVTT file alongside the video. The whole thing is currently about 9TB. With few exceptions, I sourced everything directly from Blu-ray or DVD using MakeMKV. It’s organized pretty close to how Jellyfin wants it. What about you?

1,152 - Movies 552 - Shows 37, 062 - Episodes 491 - Albums 6,558 - Songs 362 - Music Videos 14 - Concert Films

Files are a mix of 1080p and 4K. 264 and 265. Standard and REMUX.

Total space used is currently 149.90TiB

About the same here, minus the music videos (only a few dozen there for the kids), plus a fitness library, so I’d say it evens out to roughly equal.

Mostly HEVC but I still have some h.264 floating around that I have no interest in reencoding.

No AV1 at all until I get a new Intel GPU or newer Intel CPU to handle transcoding it nicely.

There’s some relatively inexpensive NVIDIA cards now with AV1 hardware encoding. I’m on my third round of re-encoding my whole library (HEVC, then VP9, now AV1). For 1080p NTSC, I get about 13x speeds on NVENC AV1, whereas with VP9 I was CPU-bound at around 4x. Definitely worth the upgrade, in case you’re on the fence.
So what card are you using?
I went with a GeForce RTX 4060. Cost was about $300.
Cool, thanks!