TRaSH Guides maps Radarr quality profiles to device limits
This guide details the process of setting up and customizing quality profiles within Radarr, a media management tool, focusing on the use of "Custom Formats" to filter and prioritize video and audio releases based on user preferences and hardware capabilities. It provides specific configurations for various quality tiers like HD Blu-ray, UHD Blu-ray, and Remuxes, alongside guidance on avoiding low-quality or incompatible formats such as BR-DISK, upscaled content, and certain AV1 encodes. The guide also offers advice on optimizing for HDR (including Dolby Vision and HDR10+) and audio formats, considering playback device limitations like those of Apple TV.
Key Takeaways
- Radarr Custom Formats are per-profile, not global, and the guide recommends using a Guide Sync tool to copy complete quality profiles.
- The HD Blu-ray + WEB profile assigns -10000 to BR-DISK, x265 (HD), 3D, Extras, Sing-Along Versions, and AV1.
- The UHD profiles add HDR scoring at 500, DV Boost at 1000, and HDR10+ Boost at 100, while blocking DV without HDR fallback at -10000.
- Remux profiles score TrueHD ATMOS at 5000 and DTS-X at 4500, with DTS-HD MA at 2500 and AAC at 1000.
- Apple TV support is limited: Plex for Apple TV only plays Dolby Vision profiles 5 and 8 correctly under CMv2.9, and Infuse 7.7.2+ expands profile 8 support.
Why It Matters
For Radarr users, the immediate implication is that quality automation now depends as much on playback hardware as on source quality. TRaSH Guides explicitly ties profile choice to TV and player support, network bandwidth, and whether a setup can direct play HDR, Dolby Vision, or HD audio. The broader ecosystem angle is clear: Plex, Apple TV, Infuse, Roku, Nvidia Shield, and Dolby Vision profiles 5, 7, and 8 all impose different limits, so one scoring template will not fit every home theater stack. Next to watch is whether a given setup can actually direct play the profile you assign, especially around Dolby Vision and AV1.
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