.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 it’s 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?

  • Coasting0942@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    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.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      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
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        8 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).

      • Supermariofan67@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        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

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      AV1 is terrible as far as compression speeds go. H265 is far superior, is 2-3% within AV1 size, and is only half as slow as H264 compression. AV1 encoding is over 10x slower than H265. AV1 is not built for us, but for megacorps with 6 figure machines.