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Are the used bitrates of your downloadabe videos sometimes unnecessarily high? If it is not a trade secret, how you decide on the bitrates of your videos - bitrate based encoding or quality based encoding? Are you using higher bitrates just as a quality buffer, albeit many times unnecessary?

I am just asking because of limited space on my NAS I convert most of my files and I find that in Handbrake, when I set quality based re-encoding with Quicksync on, QA26 and 128 kbps AAC audio instead of the standard 320kbps used by some producers, I can achieve 30% to 50% smaller files without obvious loss of quality (judged on a 50 inch 4K TV set).