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HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by kybernetikos »

woodruffw wrote: post #80
adamrezich wrote: post #75

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it was one of only a very few icons on the desktop, including the folders "New Folder", "OpenOffice 4.1.6 (en-US) installation f...", "Temp", and "Final Exhibits", and the shortcuts "Coolmuster Android Backup Manager", "Format Factory", "Handbrake", "MessengerLite", "Person 1 - Chrome", and "Zoom".

Maybe I'm missing something, but none of those applications/desktop icons scream "technically savvy" person to me.

It sounds like the kind of thing a technically savvy person might set up as a base install for a non-technically savvy person.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by kcjames1138 »

h3h3 wrote: post #86
antisthenes wrote: post #83

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> 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)

In your testing, did gmail also rename the file? Because Binger's copy, the one that was sent to the lab on a flash drive had a completely different name.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by heartbreak »

FpUser wrote: post #101
heartbreak wrote: post #44

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> the defense's email client might have compressed the video automatically (not how it works) On the contrary, this is exactly how it works. The biggest pain point in sharing high quality photo or video content in 2021 is that every single service insists on quietly compressing or transcoding your content. Some, like iMessage, even do it inconsistently depending on things like current format and file size. To make ma…

Zip it with the password.

Is there a way to unzip and view it on mobile if it’s a password protected zip? If so I’m definitely switching to this method.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by cronix »

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

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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.

Why would you do any conversion at all if you are to provide a "true and accurate copy" of all evidence to the defense? It's supposed to be an identical copy so the defense has the exact same evidence that the all-powerful state that has the power to put you in prison for the rest of your life does. Why wouldn't you just drag the file over to the dropbox folder shared with the defense, like every other piece of evidence that had been distributed?

This isn't just a lawyer. This is an Assistant District Attorney, officially representing the government. They, all lawyers, are trained in handling evidence and know full well what their obligations and duties are. Even if it was somehow a "mistake," it's the type of mistake that trials are dismissed over, with prejudice, and rightly so, because it potentially biases every piece of evidence the prosecution handled.

Besides, using handbrake doesn't completely change the filename, and we're not talking about appending "(1)", "(2)" or "(copy)" like an OS would do for files with the same filename in the same directory.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by jpindar »

dave78 wrote: post #63
slg wrote: post #42

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HN isn't the right place to discuss most of the aspects of this case, but I will just say that there have been multiple tech stories that have come out of that trial that highlight how antiquated our legal system can be in terms of understanding technology and the repercussions from that ignorance are troubling.

It's a big problem with this case. The judge has admitted that he basically knows nothing about technology, and the lawyers clearly don't know a lot either. The prosecution in particular has made several blatantly false statements about how interpolation works when resizing images, but it's impossible to know if that's due to ignorance or malice. The bigger problem is the judge just accepts these statements without a…

>The judge has admitted that he basically knows nothing about technology, and the lawyers clearly don't know a lot either.

Neither do some 'expert' witnesses.

Re: HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by Supermancho »

jhgb wrote: post #105
kyleee wrote: post #93

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The reason for it being in the public consciousness today is immaterial really in terms of relevance for HN discussion purposes, and since it's an interesting piece of software it's quite on topic here

How is software presumably well known to a large portion of the site's audience relevant news merely for reason of some people outside of this site's audience discovering it for the first time? And what's there to discuss about it since its features have been the same for many years?

> How is software presumably well known to a large portion of the site's audience relevant news

Large portion is not all. It's relevant because it's an element of a popular news story. There isn't some mystery agenda here as it was voted up by the community.

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