02-02-2021, 04:40 PM
M A V I C wrote:
The other challenge is transcoding creates a lot larger files than the original.
Just want to clear this up- transcoding by definition takes a file of one format and re-encodes it into another. It does not always mean larger!
One could easily take a file and make it smaller, trouble is the files we tend to consume and deliver are already encoded at low bitrates to conserve space, so to make it smaller you would need to lower the bitrate even more undoubtedly affecting the image quality.
Of course if you mean to edit a file it might make sense to transcode to a less compressed format do reduce the load on your CPU, but as you correctly noted this does increase the file size!