Right now my set up is an M4 desktop Mac + 2tb external hard drive (for now). I’ve saved a handful of movies and shows on it and have been watching them through infuse on my Apple tv. Have been very satisfied with how it’s all worked out so now I would like to begin the process of going full hoarder mode and really start loading up on shows and movies.

My immediate first use case is that I want to add all my favorite shows - mainly 30 min sitcoms like Seinfeld, trailer park boys, it’s always sunny, etc. to the drive. Using Seinfeld as an example, each episode is roughly between 800mb and 1gb as it stands now.

I own Apple compressor and would like to run all these shows through it to save on space. Any recommendations for format/audio/visual settings? HEVC? h264? h265? MP4? Other? Really don’t need super high quality here, certainly not 4k, but was thinking 1080.

Also would be curious to hear streaming platform recommendations. Infuse has been terrific so far but didn’t know if plex, jellyfin, kodi were worth a look or better in any way. Thanks in advance

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