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Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by COGlory »

woodruffw wrote: post #78
vlunkr wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course you don't have to be an engineer to use it, but if he's really claiming to know nothing about encoding, that's quite the contradiction.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. In fact, I can very easily see a lawyer clicking the "fast convert" (or similar) checkbox, not realizing that doing so compromises the encoding quality. For all I know, that setting is the default.

I'm very much on the side that Rittenhouse was defending himself when he pulled the trigger.

Furthermore, I think the prosecution has been terrible, and at times, downright malicious (trying to get a mistrial after their start witness flopped, etc).

HOWEVER I really do agree with this take. I'm fairly computer literate (sysadmin for a microscopy facility, daily drive Linux, couple years of web development under my belt) and recently spent a non-insignificant amount of time trying to create a video from a bunch of .tif files and embed them into a PowerPoint. It was not simple or easy. Working with video is always an annoying, expensive, black box. Sometimes I'd do things, and it would just come out a blurry mess. Or balloon in file size for no obvious reason.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by [deleted] »

cronix wrote: post #28

For context, today in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the prosecution (ADA Kraus) claimed that he was basically technically illiterate and basically didn't know about transcoding, not in as many words. A review of previous video testimony from PBS's live feed showed that he (Kraus) had Handbrake in the directory that he was showing the video from. That's not a normal application one would just have floating around. The b…

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Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by antisthenes »

h3h3 wrote: post #79
1shooner wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So the speculation is that because he had free transcoding software on his desktop, that he understands transcoding?

Here is what actually happened and the prosecution later admitted it. (they first blamed it on the defense android phone) 1. Prosecution receives the file via airdrop, direct data transfer. 2. Prosecution sends the file via gmail to the defense but it gets compressed in the process. There are 2 ways to send a vid/pic from ios with gmail 1. from gmail app with attachment function, this pops up a window with "processin…

> 2. Prosecution sends the file via gmail to the defense but it gets compressed in the process.

Does Gmail automatically compress the video? I would presume it complains about size file first, and an inability to send it via email, and refuses to send.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by senectus1 »

superkuh wrote: post #3

Handbrake is incredibly useful to me since I use many older machines that don't have hardware (or even software) support of modern codecs. I basically treat handbrake like an "unzip" software to unzip the h265/av1/etc to a standard h264 with aac audio. The file sizes really aren't that much different.

same, I've used it extensively over the last 5 years or so.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by h3h3 »

antisthenes wrote: post #83
h3h3 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is what actually happened and the prosecution later admitted it. (they first blamed it on the defense android phone) 1. Prosecution receives the file via airdrop, direct data transfer. 2. Prosecution sends the file via gmail to the defense but it gets compressed in the process. There are 2 ways to send a vid/pic from ios with gmail 1. from gmail app with attachment function, this pops up a window with "processin…

> 2. Prosecution sends the file via gmail to the defense but it gets compressed in the process. Does Gmail automatically compress the video? I would presume it complains about size file first, and an inability to send it via email, and refuses to send.

It did not in my testing with a 22mb file, it directly showed up "processing" or "compressing".

The iOS mail app did the same for my test video 22mb > 458K, no questions asked. (unlike images where app lets you select resize options)

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by capableweb »

concinds wrote: post #29
capableweb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> defense's email client might have compressed the video automatically (not how it works) I'm not familiar with all email clients, I mostly use Thunderbird, but almost all messaging clients, social media and similar service do compression when you upload media to them today. It's not super far off that an email client would do the same.

He was saying the receiving email client (the defense's) was doing the compression (because if he was responsible, that potentially puts him in trouble)

You're right, I misread that part. Thanks!

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by decsser »

steviedotboston wrote: post #5

I remember using this to rip every DVD I received in the mail from Netflix, and then copying the file to my iPod Video so I could watch it on the bus ride to school. Man have times changed...

In 2004, I went to China with 1 suitcase and came back with 2. Let's say I found out how to make my players region-free fast.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by sxp »

keketi wrote: post #76
cronix wrote: post #28

For context, today in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the prosecution (ADA Kraus) claimed that he was basically technically illiterate and basically didn't know about transcoding, not in as many words. A review of previous video testimony from PBS's live feed showed that he (Kraus) had Handbrake in the directory that he was showing the video from. That's not a normal application one would just have floating around. The b…

It should be noted that according to the defense's motion for a mistrial[1] there is also a slight difference in the aspect ratio of the two video files. The high quality video is 1920x844 and the low quality video is 480x212. If you divide 1920 by 4, you get 480, which matches the low quality video. If you divide 844 by 4, you get 211, not 212. Rounding to the nearest integer doesn't explain the one pixel difference…

Some video decoders don't like resolutions that aren't multiples of 2, 4, 16, etc. So rounding 211 to 212 is safer since the latter is an even number.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by jhgb »

Supermancho wrote: post #61
Meglis wrote: post #33

Is this news somehow, been using handbrake since 2012!

Because https://twitter.com/lego_operator/status/1461077353476628488 which is relevant to a high profile trial contention.

That would be a very poor standard for newsworthiness on this site.
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