Questions tagged [encoding]
Encoding is the process of converting data into another format. It may refer to encoding codes of characters (ASCII, UTF, OS, etc...), audio (mp3, wave, m4a, etc...) or video (avi, mp4, mkv, etc...). This tag should be use for any question related to the act of format conversion.
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Adding custom tags to an AVI format file
I converted mov file to AVI file, and I need it to have similar settings to some other video I have.
I saw that it has tags that are not the standard AVI tags. I tried to use ffmeg and add it to my ...
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Safari download of CSV not using UTF-8 character set
I am downloading a CSV file, which Safari (annoyingly) puts directly onto the page. This CSV file is encoded with UTF-8, and has been verified to be correctly encoded with UTF-8 from the source file, ...
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Terminal - Incorrect cyrillic characters display on vi/vim
If i open any file in vim with cyrillic characers - most of them a shown like ?~A ?~B ?~C
Displaying by any other console utility like less or cat works just fine.
Problem occurs in vim both locally ...
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M3 AV1 hardware decoding requirements (encoding options, pixel format etc.)
Are there any restrictions on the encoder options, pixel formats, etc. that can be decoded by the M3 AV1 hardware decoder? For H264 and H265, only a subset of the bitstream options are accepted, both ...
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M1 MacBook Pro 16'' YouTube and Chrome CPU usage increasing when watching for extended period of time
I have recently started to watch quite a lot of YouTube videos on battery, and would notice that battery will drain faster as I binge watch.
I have noticed the following happening,
In normal ...
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How to convert a bunch of videos using avconvert on MacBook?
I have to convert a lot of videos and save the metadata. The only way I found is to create the command for every video and paste it into Terminal. If I select all the files in the folder and convert ...
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Can I get help on an issue where unexpected/illegible characters render in Safari on some HTML pages?
I am faced with a strange problem: On some websites, I have illegible characters and if I copy/paste the text into Google Translate or an editor like vim, the text appears normally in English.
Here an ...
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How to make sure a video file can be stored in the Photos app? (iPhone)
I would like to offer a video of our festival promotion towards our fans to be then shared on social media. However it seems impossible to offer it in a way that the video can be stored to the Photos ...
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How do I fix these issues for my segmented video files?
I'm using an .m3u8 file uploaded to Amazon Web Services for HLS streaming. When I create an HLS report for it, it shows that there are several must fix issues present.
I'm fairly new to validating and ...
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Alternative to iconv encoding utf-8-mac
There used to be support for an encoding option called utf-8-mac with iconv in the Terminal. It's mentioned in this forum several times. I used to use it a lot. Now with the following command (that ...
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MacOS 12.5 file names are created with wrong char
I made a script to rename mp3 files based on the tags, basically it extracts the data like this:
sArtist=$(exiftool -s3 -Artist "$sFile")
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sNewName="$sArtist - $sTitle"
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Output clickable link in Terminal
I want to echo a clickable URL on ZSH/Terminal. The URL corresponds to a Kibana-query, which means it includes lots of funky characters. For technical reasons, I cannot use "shortened" ...
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How do I convert UTF-8 encoded files to MacOS Roman and vice versa?
I'm editing some Japanese cue files, and testing them against Cog and VLC, but I noticed corrupted-like, obfuscated text inside the cue file. Cog seems to be able to read this text, but VLC shows the ...
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Are *.mov and *.m4v files from older iPhones today (2022) to be considered legacy?
I have made many videos with different generations of iPhones.
The vast majority of my videos are in *.mp4. However, I still see older videos in *.mov and *.m4v.
Are *.mov and *.m4v files considered ...
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How to get the same date time in two formats in command line?
I have the following code
DATETIME=$(date '+%F %T')
GIT_TAG_DATETIME=$(date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S' --date="$DATETIME")
to assign the same datetime in two vars in different formats. It works on ...
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