Why would you convert gifs to video to optimize storage space? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Every time I consider that my near-a-terrabyte may be a little excessive, I’ll remember anon.
Then again, I keep videos to 720P or less, and convert gifs to video, so if anon’s an HD and/or 3D/Vr maniac, I could easilly have more than them, measured in playback time.
Kalladblog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gifs are actually really inefficient. It’s largely a legacy format issue, but Gifs store every frame as it’s own image while mp4s (in simple terms) store the delta between frames.
This link sorta talks about it - medium.com/…/gif-vs-video-9b9392ec5814
Kalladblog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, neat. I wasn’t aware of that and never thought about it even in that way. I resorted to gifs if given the chance becuase it was way easier for me to mess up the encoding and other stuff of the video, resulting in way bigger file sizes than necessary. I guess it’s worth investing a bit more time in that lol.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I convert gifs where the conversion results in saved space and there’s no noticable degredation in the content. This isn’t most gifs, but I’ve encouotered more than enough to make this worthwhile, to me.
By and large, those who have bothered to convert videos to gifs don’t seem to have considered any sort of size vs quality notion; Its done moreso because whatever forum/site they uploaded to would embed gifs and not video files. Gif is efficient enough that this usually doesn’t matter, but sometimes…
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I prefer audio, comics and text so my database is deceptively small
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
We need Petabyte drives to be normalized!
weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve got good news for you: Storage is now unbelievably cheap compared to just a few years ago.
I’ve forgotten what deleting a file even means.
Years ago when I started ripping CDs people called me an idiot for not using MP3 instead of flac. They aren’t laughing now. I fully admit that MP3 can be transparent at high bitrates and modern codecs even more so but that’s for the end device (like my car or phone) not archival.
The same will be true with my Blu Ray collection stored as decrypted ISO files… I hope.
chrislowles@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m kind of ashamed of the lengths I’ve gone to to “optimize” my stash, not too much though cuz finding good upscale and compressing software that’s also cross-platform is always hard to come by.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Talking of organizing your stash: stashapp / stash | GitHub.com
chrislowles@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ran into that when I was looking for apps like Upscayl, Caesium and dupeguru, I wonder if anyone would be up for releasing a third-party flatpak on Flathub, they allow NSFW apps there and I saw an issue from 2023 mentioning it.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I just use FileFlows to automatically optimize all of my video files. I’ve got my streamer app to only pick up the converted videos, so I just have to wait on automatic processes before stuff is available for me.