I have a doubt regarding HDTV quality, I used to download torrents that were only HDTV, (NOT 720p or higher) however in Sonarr I can’t seem to find that option, in the Profiles section the lowest cutoff quality in HDTV is 720p, which gives me huge files (1GB+), and I used to download HDTV files with 400MB maximum.
I’m currently using SD profiles in all series with the lowest cutoff that gives me WebRip files and they are the size I want to, 480p are a non common format and hard to find subtitles in my language so I don’t use it.
But I always seemed to find that regular HDTV was the best quality vs size option for me.
Does anyone know if what I want to achieve is possible in Sonarr?
Thanks in advance
It shouldn’t matter if the subs are for 720p or 1080p.
It should just work.
If you want lower then 720p then you’re looking for SD quality.
You can choose 480p web-dl being that sonarr sees webdl and webrip as one.
For reference I’m using Kodi as media center. The subs don’t work for all releases since there may be some delay between scenes of different releases, it happened all the time when I used to use only uTorrent and BSPlayer, besides that, the subs won’t show up for download automatically if the name of the file doesn’t match to the release, that’s the case with WEBL 480p, and why I stopped using it.
Sonarr may see WEBL and WEBRIP as one but the truth is that the release is different and that affects the search for subtitles.
My biggest problem is really the size of the file, I don’t have a lot of space available, so having 1GB+ episodes is not an option.
For example an episode with the termination: HDTV.x264-SVA[ettv] on piratebay is not really HDTV then? Because it’s only 470MB.
I just checked what kind of releases they do,
They use some weird kind of resolution and label it hdtv.
Because they don’t add the screen resolution and mislabel there releases and heavily compress them allot of major b trackers ban them.
Here a note from a tracker
Beware when downloading SVA releases - they cut the ending or have issues with playback on some devices.
Being that they don’t add a resolution in there filename you could try the profile unknown.
If you search them in Sonarr manually you will perhaps see them also as unknown.
Personally I never had problems with it, I mentioned SVA but several other releases do the same with this pseudo HDTV format, KILLERS, FLEET are some examples, and they’re uploaded by trusted sources such as ettv.
I’ll experiment with the various qualities in Sonarr and find the one that better suits my quality vs. size requirements.