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Video encoding for archival
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Mar 15, 2026688 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I would like to archive some home videos (DV). I don't need to save them losslessly, but I would like to encode them in something high-quality. What format is both pretty indistinguishable from the original and will likely be readable 15 years from now? WMA makes me nervous, because it's only one c…
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H.264 is the current state-of-the-art codec, will give you the best quality/size and will likely be in use for some time. Ogg Theora is not as powerful as H.264, but is completely open and doesn't have the patent questions that H.264 has (link). The…
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