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How can I reduce file sizes of all my photos and videos for storage? (kbin.earth)

submitted 3 weeks ago by strawberry@kbin.earth to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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I know for photos i could throw them through something like Converseen to take them from .jpg to .jxl, preserving the quality (identical visially, even when pixel peeping), but reducing file size by around 30%. What about video? My videos are in .h265, but can i reencode them more efficiently? im assuming that if my phone has to do live encoding, its not really making it as efficient as it could. could file sizes be reduced without losing quality by throwing some processing time at it? thank you all

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

I converted my old phone photos to JXL for this reason. It is malpractice that Android isn’t doing this by default for all users right now.