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What file formats, technologies, techniques do you think would benefit most people by being more common? Or that people would benefit by being more aware of? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.7z seems to be good and I do recommend it to people, saying that it's better than regular zip. Have recently started using opus n webm files more.

I've also heard about jxl recently. Would be very nice to see it become popular, as it could reduce the size of my memes n screenshots folders. Faster webpage loading too.

Are there any other file formats that'll be useful to people, but isn't getting enough attention?

In the case of apps, Trebleshot seems to be good for android file sharing. I like it's web sharing option having an upload form. Helps me where I don't have to ask others to install an app to send me a file locally. Not sure about its encryption n security aspects, but I only have used it for local file sharing.

And what about other stuff similar to that, other than file formats or apps?

Recently have started exercising my neck. Not neck bridges and loaded things tho. Only safe n simple movements. Seems to be good, especially after using a monitor for some time. I think it's not much talked about, maybe because of the fear that people will overdo it?

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[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

AV1 for video. Just running my video files through it gets the same quality at 1/10th the size. Thought I was having a stroke.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Cool. How much time does it take for encoding?
Which container do you generally prefer? mp4 or webm? Is there any remarkable benefit in choosing one over the other?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

It depends if you have modern enough hardware to contain an AV1 hardware encoder (pretty much just current enthusiast stuff).

AV1 typically ends up in an MKV or WebM container (btw WebM is just a kind of MKV with less features intended for web use).

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1/10??? I need to look into this ASAP!

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ratios that extreme would probably only be seen in cases where the source video was really poorly compressed anyway, which is what the commenter probably experienced. I've had that happen before too. Expect more like half the size compared to H264, which is still pretty good

[–] icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com 6 points 7 months ago

Some examples of poor compression: cameras, dashcams, security cameras, basically anything that just dumps an image into a stream.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Alright. Thank you!