Using SSD is going to cost a lot more for the same storage and not really gain anything.
I use SSD for the drives that host VMs since they’re quieter when “running” and have a lower power consumption than my spinning disk drives when running.
This allows my storage drives to spin down.
I routinely reduce size 50%-70% and play it on a 65" 4k TV and you can’t tell the difference.
Sometimes I can actually improve the original video by applying noise reduction.
As for power - it really depends on your hardware and what you’re trying to do. Since I use an Intel SFF desktop, I have the option of using QSV for conversion and my rig peaks at 80 watts. Not that my peak matters because QSV is very power efficient and fast - takes perhaps 20 min to convert a 6GB video to 1-2 GB.
Probably. Why wouldn’t it?
Burn it to a disc or put it on a bootable thumbdrive with Yumi and find out.
It isn’t clear what question you’re asking.
I’ve never seen machine that won’t boot to a WinPE disk, that’s the point of WinPE.
Thanks for the correction - bunch of numbers in my head and I grabbed the first one, haha.
I have pages of notes about how to convert different types of videos with accompanying scripts for ffmpeg, so I don’t really have to think about it anymore.
When you go to reconvert it has noticeable impact in how you encode.
I have movies with letterboxing that’s 20% of the screen. You’re going to say losing 20% of your pixels to baked-in, forced letterboxing has no impact?
It depends on how you intend to view, and the source.
DVD source? No reason to go past 720 480 as that’s all they do.
Blu-ray can do a lot more.
Interestingly on a 65" 4k TV, I find most 720 sources to be fine. I did just watch Blithe Spirit from DVD and it was awful. Lots of blurriness. Someone really screwed up the encoding on that one.
As others have said, test your encoding. I’ve generally found with handbrake that movies converted with a Quality level 19 (H264 MKV container), reduce about 70%+. So a 4 GB video often reduces to 1 GB, and you can’t see the difference on the screen.
Some you can, but those are movies with a 16:9 aspect ratio and letterboxing built into the video so DVD players show them correctly. Since that loses some pixels up front, they require using higher quality levels to prevent visual lossiness.
Fine.
So don’t even bother locking your doors then?
You absolutists are part of the problem.
Definitely
Installing apps in Windows is a privileged process. This keeps the average user from corrupting a system.
The only users that can install apps are ones with Install Apps permission (I forget what it’s actually called). Anyone in the Admin group has this. The group Users does not.
In a business/domain environment, very few people get local admin rights. For a home user best practice would be to run as a User or at most Power User, and only do admin level stuff when logged in as an Admin.
No one does this, of course. (I certainly don’t, even though I know better. It’s just easier to not do risky things and maintain backups).
Haha, awesome.
Hell, you could pickup a used car battery and have power for a week!
But not inaccurate
Everywhere I’ve lived, it’s never changed, for years (current is 5 years).
I guess it really depends.
Lol, I hear ya.
Thanks for the Android app recommendation.
This will just create an underground DNS system
Ah hell, I don’t know anything about it, but figured I’d go ahead and download it to watch later.
The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.
Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.
You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).
I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…
I’m sure they will. It’s always a cat-and-mouse game.
It’s been a while since I read about DRM, but what I recall the challenge is not being able to control end-to-end, which is what really drives trusted boot efforts in both Android and Windows.
If you don’t control the hardware and OS, then someone can use it to sidestep DRM.
Gamecopyworld.com still exists!