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by hendryau 3720 days ago
Do you know of any good resources on storing/maintaining video files? I recently ripped over a TB of uncompressed video from old 8mm tapes and I'd like to preserve these memories digitally for as long as possible.
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Lossless x264 (with FLAC audio) in MKV with a recent version of FFMPEG.
Better store the sourcecode of the exact version used for transcoding/playback and back it up propperly too. You might need to re-recreate the binaries in dozens of years from now.