[ubuntu-za] Photo/video compressor

[Robin Bownes]

On 01/15/2015 01:21 PM, Leon Gert Marincowitz wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Has anyone got experience with Ubuntu tools/apps that compress the 
> size of video/photos and pdfs?
>
> these of course might be different tools but I need to compress a 
> variety of files every now and then.
>
> Regards
> Leon
>
>
Hi Leon,

I'm sure that there are good tools out there, but I'd just like to sound 
a warning too. Remember that the vast majority of photo and video 
formats that we use are already considerably compressed. Further 
compression can very easily result in drastically lowered image/video 
quality. (think what some photos look like on Facebook after their 
compression algorithm has had a go) With this in mind, I'd recommend 
looking at software that compresses a file/folder, and then 
extracts/uncompressess it again for use - such as zip, etc., rather than 
software that permanently compresses an already compressed image/video.

Robin
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