Citadel X265 Better

Traditional codecs (like x264) choke on grain. To preserve the visual integrity of Citadel , a standard x264 encode would require bitrates of 15–20 Mbps, resulting in file sizes of 8–10GB per episode. x265, however, was built for this.

This command encodes input.mp4 to output.mp4 using the x265 codec with a quality setting of 28 (lower values will result in a larger file size and potentially higher quality). citadel x265

It signifies a "transparent encode." This means that to the human eye, watching the x265 version is indistinguishable from watching the source file that is four times larger. For the data hoarder—someone building a personal library of cinema—this is the Holy Grail. Traditional codecs (like x264) choke on grain