I stream nothing, and I am happy.

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

I stream nothing, and I am happy.

PeerTube
Looked at your guide for Handbrake, decided to try out AV1.

Nope, not yet.

Encoding at the same settings, my system supports hardware H.265 encoding at good quality and good size. ~300 fps encode.

Same basic settings in AV1? **15** fps.

Yeah, I'm not going to have it take literally 20x as long to encode. And I'm not ready for a new system yet for this. Maybe I'll re-rip and re-encode my collection again in a few years. But for now, my H.265 workflow will have to do.