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minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoMedia files are always thoroughly compressed (except in certain settings like professional video and audio work).
minus-squareOpisek@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI don’t see how that relates to encryption.
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoIt’s more relevant to the previous comment as an example of how we are doing a lot of compression at the filesystem level. The files that are typically largest are already quite thoroughly compressed.
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoMedia files can can benefit from a codec change. Going from h264 to h265/hevc can net a 30-50% reduction in size for almost no quality loss. The only trade off is increased cpu usage if the client doesnt have hardware h265 support and the time to do the transcoding.
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoAnd then comes AV1, with crazily varying quality/compression for different source materials.
Media files are always thoroughly compressed (except in certain settings like professional video and audio work).
I don’t see how that relates to encryption.
It’s more relevant to the previous comment as an example of how we are doing a lot of compression at the filesystem level.
The files that are typically largest are already quite thoroughly compressed.
Media files can can benefit from a codec change. Going from h264 to h265/hevc can net a 30-50% reduction in size for almost no quality loss.
The only trade off is increased cpu usage if the client doesnt have hardware h265 support and the time to do the transcoding.
And then comes AV1, with crazily varying quality/compression for different source materials.