Back up the files as binary data. Never back up to a special video service, because they will transcode, and almost certainly to a lower quality to save space.
I'm telling you that transcoding will strictly lose information, and transcoding more times loses more information. Whether that's noticeable or not depends on you, your settings, and the source video. Whether that matters depends on you only.
If you don't have the space to keep the originals or back them up properly, feel free to transcode to something smaller, as long as you are aware that you are permanently losing information by doing so.
OK so I keep the original, but I still can't easily play it on mobiles and TV, and when I do, I want the best quality possible and not a software that will assume I want lower quality to save space ( which is not a concern since this will be happening over the internet anyway )
Encoding/transcoding, I'd personally go back to ffmpeg for better codec support. Otherwise, Adobe Media Encoder (cause that's what I have :P), which does hardware-accelerated encoding.
If I make a hash of a video, and I upload this video to Google photos, and this video is downloaded back after their algorithm and I compare the hash. If they are the same, does that means the file hasn't been touched?
and just because something is all 4K in pixels doesnt nessisarily set the overall quality. Take for example you can buy a $500 4k camera, and a $600,000 4k camera, and i am kinda doubting they have the same picture
@Freedo Anyway. If you want to trancode to H.264/H.265, pick a CRF (23/28 default?). Bigger CRF number is lower quality/smaller size, and vice versa. So move it up/down till you can't tell a difference in quality anymore. Then step it down a couple steps (higher quality) to make sure.
They are only 340 EUR as a company expense. And I could sell the old screens. So, when you think about, I would be an idiot for not purchasing immediately!
@Freedo everyone should have fleed google when they started the redirection BS. but we all rolled over and took it up the . . . oh wait i cant say that :-)
@Freedo originally when you clicked a link on google it would go direct to the site, now everything is re-directed through goggle so they caan track every click.
@OliverSalzburg ._. I don't believe I've checked. I LOVE the dell stand, other than the lack of vesa holes for rear mounting random crap that its not designed to mount
I need the VESA mounts, because it's pretty hard to arrange 3 screens on my desk without them taking up all of the desk if I use the regular stands they come with
So I did a few tests here. I made a mkv from a .VOB source and It was 442 MB, then I transcoded it to h264 with --very slow -constant quality 23 over the MKV and I got a 92 MB file
@JourneymanGeek It was pretty annoying before I got my mounts, because I also have my desk set pretty low and I could never get the screens to be at the high/position I want them at
Well, the stands on the Korean IPSs are shit though
and I can't see a difference. I transcoded lossy to another lossy and still looks nearly equal to the original source. It wasn't Ultra HD to start, but I see no difference
I guess I can trust the algorithms more than I thought
I'm pretty happy with the results. After all if I can get smaller file size, transparent quality, and Google photos together...why not ? I'll do a few more tests anyway
@Freedo yup back even before android 4 that was supported by software in android. even in windows XP supported by codecs when it became popular, dont know about linux and apple.
and some of these codecs have so many settings (if anyone looks or changes them enough) that it is possible to make videos that break in even the newer stuff, not suspecting that some person would be tweaking it that way.
I pity the people charged with supporting "everything" in thier players, as they are sure to have a weekly update as some person plays with all the settings.
i can also percieve that fredos reality is that they will eventually drop support for some of the older codecs long times from now, just to concentrate on the new ones with 10+ crasy compression Techniques .
I wish we could all agree on only using one standard for music, video and everything else
and have a way to change it "within" the standard for when you want more quality, or smaller file and so on
but the standard it would still be the same, and could play a file encoded with the highest quality and the smallest file possible on the same device, using the same standard
and installation of the codec puts 35 advertising malwares on your computer, you can spend the week tracking down and removing. Or you can buy the microtransaction free version from the OmniCorp store.
Then,,, Then you will all be happy to use MPEG1 :-)
hybrid and 'lectric cars are so quiet some people think they need an external speaker in them making combustion engine noises, so pedestrians dont ignore them. that would be a bit backwards.
you can imagine if they made a Noise law that cars have to make noise, that would be "Only in America" Get that V-8 sound for only $149.99
course if your stoned , then it sounds more creative than incoherant :-)
and has the added advantage of , who really wants to type then anyways
we had joked about that back in the military service. How it was much better to drive stoned than drunk, because the stoned person is less likely to even get off the couch to begin with.
The drunk person though, knows they can still drive, until they run into something.
this is like going out for a movie, and finding that someone had a party in your apartment and you're still finding used... things under the sofa, in the toilet, in the lights...
@JourneymanGeek What I forgot, at the time, was that, as a room owner, I could have trashed the offending messages. Would that have been an appropriate response (together with an uncool warning)?
A good chunk of my workday the past week has been "disconnect PC at <location>" then wait for a (another?) contractor to move the rather heavy/ornate desk for it out and replace it with an identical one
@JourneymanGeek Well, most places have a policy of fully advertising jobs and being impartial, but a known good worker who has experience with all the other staff and is going to take very little time to get up to speed with processes and procedures is surely going to be the preferred choice...
