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Any reliable group making AV1 releases consistently? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So...yeah. Looking at file size, it clearly beats older 264 or even 265. I don't mind if my server is going to have to transcode for most clients, I think the size difference in size might be worth it. But not sure which groups I could focus to look for these AV1 releases, seem they're quite scarce still?

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with FLAC?

[–] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing. It’s just that you don’t see people use flac very often as an audio codec for movies or TV series. At least I haven’t seen it very often.

The only issue would be if you were trying to transcode Dolby Digital to flac. That is not a transcode you want to do.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is not a transcode you want to do.

Why is that?

[–] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dolby Digital (e-ac & e-ac3) are lossy codecs. So transcoding a lossy codec to a lossless codec, is not a good idea.

You can read more about it here: https://interviewfor.red/en/transcodes.html

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lossy to lossless is fine it's just a waste of space.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

It’s extra wasted space because compression artifacts are hard to compress lossless. It’s a shit sandwich, so people advise against it.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I didnt realise* that they were lossy. Makes sense now.