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Asking for suggestions on managing media
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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It is not necessarily about saving space so much as it is about uniformity. And yes my server is beefy but you get 3 or 4 people all transcoding at the sane time and that beefy server will choke. As I have said I have been collecting for many years with a very large mixed bag of codecs I am just trying to clean up the mess that is my media.
OK, but why do you care about uniformity? If it's just some OCD-adjacent urge - that's fine; do what makes you happy.
But from a technical point of view, VLC will play back no matter what the codec and compression level.