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[Feature] Release clients with broad format support (so no need to transcode)
Source: immich-app/immich#10541 · opened by @pyorot
I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request. • Yes The feature This is kind of a meta-feature to consider long-term. I think transcoding mainstream formats in general is a bit cringe for several reasons: • Storage usage • Electricity usage • Quality loss • Metadata loss (e.g. date created on file system)\* • Longevity \* (currently, originals are always kept with intact metadata, but there could be a transcode policy one day that replaces them to alleviate storage usage) To expand that last point, there will come a time when browsers drop support for h264, because it's not supported in webm, and will stop being updated and become "insecure". Web compatibility is not the same as backward compatibility, because the web is designed to coerce web designers into a set of modern, maintained formats. I think the use-case of immich is rather more similar to that of vlc, mpc…
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