Compress Your Plex & Media Library

The Media Library Storage Problem

Your Plex, Jellyfin or Emby library keeps growing, and NAS drives are not cheap:

• 8 TB NAS drive — $200+ and fills up in months
• NAS enclosure upgrade — $400-$1,500 for more bays
• Cloud storage — $10-20/month per TB, adds up fast

Most media files use older codecs (H.264, MPEG-2) at unnecessarily high bitrates. Re-encoding to H.265 or AV1 delivers the same visual quality at half the file size or less.

How VideoRecompress Shrinks Your Library

Point it at your media folder and let it work:

• Scan your library folder — recursively finds all video files in any directory structure
• Re-encode to H.265 or AV1 — modern codecs cut file sizes by 50-70%
• Verify integrity — every output file is checked to ensure it plays correctly
• Preserve subtitles and audio — all streams are kept intact during re-encoding

Typical Library Savings

Real-world results from re-encoding media libraries to H.265:

Results using H.265, CRF 23 (Phone Archive preset). Savings vary by source codec and content.

Cheaper Than a New Hard Drive

VideoRecompress Studio costs $79 — a one-time purchase that saves you hundreds on storage:

• $79 once vs. $200+ per 8 TB drive — pays for itself on the first batch
• No subscription — unlike cloud storage that charges monthly forever
• GPU-accelerated — processes large libraries 5-10x faster than CPU-only tools

Direct Play Compatible

H.265 output plays natively on modern devices — no Plex transcoding required:

• Plex, Jellyfin, Emby — direct play on all modern clients
• Smart TVs, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV — H.265 hardware decoding built in
• Phones and tablets — all modern iOS and Android devices support H.265