Is HEVC (8-bit)/AAC a good, modern CODEC combination for reducing library size without compromising quality? I’m about to start a library re-encode and wanted some feedback.
Is HEVC (8-bit)/AAC a good, modern CODEC combination for reducing library size without compromising quality? I’m about to start a library re-encode and wanted some feedback.
If you’re concerned about quality, re-encoding from a lossy format to another lossy format is always going to lose more quality. Even if the format you choose would have been better quality if it was encoded directly from the source, the result is almost certainly going to look worse than what you have now.
Exactly this, avoid re-encoding at all costs. Giant hard drives are real cheap these days
Definitely, unless the original source was very inefficiently compressed, it’s not worth the time, effort and quality loss to save a small amount of space.