The site you go to is usually less important than the file creator team tagged in the name of the file. Torrents will usually get posted most everywhere.
I usually have good luck with the yts or yify releases (yts.mx) for movies. They reencode stuff for minimal download size. If you've got bandwidth to burn, any full-size, non-transcoded webrip or blueray rip should be just about the same as any other though.
For TV slop, I like eztv.re, especially the reencodings by the MeGusta team, again for high quality at minimal filesize. But you'll find non-transcoded webrips at eztv too.
I didn't know what any of these acronyms were for, but I agree with your assessment. TV Slop / reality I always go for that MeGusta download. Always small and good enough quality. YTS/YIFY are good, but they're MP4s without subs. Sometimes I'll try to dig around and find a similar download that's in MKV (usually has subs included in the file).
I remember using yify years ago, for the sole reason that the lower bitrate that came with the smaller file size was all my computer (a netbook) could handle decoding at the time lol. So it has that going for it too
The site you go to is usually less important than the file creator team tagged in the name of the file. Torrents will usually get posted most everywhere.
I usually have good luck with the yts or yify releases (yts.mx) for movies. They reencode stuff for minimal download size. If you've got bandwidth to burn, any full-size, non-transcoded webrip or blueray rip should be just about the same as any other though.
For TV slop, I like eztv.re, especially the reencodings by the MeGusta team, again for high quality at minimal filesize. But you'll find non-transcoded webrips at eztv too.
I've had good experience with d3g encodes, they do nice HEVC
I didn't know what any of these acronyms were for, but I agree with your assessment. TV Slop / reality I always go for that MeGusta download. Always small and good enough quality. YTS/YIFY are good, but they're MP4s without subs. Sometimes I'll try to dig around and find a similar download that's in MKV (usually has subs included in the file).
They've gotten a little better about including the sub files, which VLC can use. seems to depend on which team member does the packaging though.
I do wind up converting a lot of yify movies to mkv and attaching downloaded sub tracks now that you mention it
I need to start doing that. Usually Plex can find some subs, but it's soooo much easier when they're packed.
I like eztv for the slop too
I remember using yify years ago, for the sole reason that the lower bitrate that came with the smaller file size was all my computer (a netbook) could handle decoding at the time lol. So it has that going for it too