• tal@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      The tradition has normally been to just have newer image formats and image-generation hardware and software that are more capable or higher fidelity so that the old stuff starts to look old in comparison to the new stuff.

      • FierySpectre@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        What should be done is that every time a new format comes out all images in existence are re-encoded in that format. Hopefully that will cause artifacts, clearing everything up in terms of image age.

        • mwguy@infosec.pub
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          3 months ago

          Slight tangent. But I’ve recently been pulling old home videos off of MiniDV tapes. And I’ve found that the ffmpeg dv1 decoder can correct several tape issues when re-encoding from dv1 to essentially any modern codec. So I’ve got like 3GB video files that look incredibly poor, but then I re-encode them into h264 files that look better than the original. It’s baffling how well that works.

    • III@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Could probably pull that off with meta information to determine the age of the photo.