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This post have more information about what l talked about earlier. If l have a mp4 movie than l compress it using 7zip. When l am going to put in my libary in KODI it don't show up. I have about 50 movies (mp4) on my pc, thats about 50-100 Gigabytes. I was hoping that KODI could add 7zip files then unpack them so play them.
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2017-07-09, 01:02
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Firstly you should know that video files are already compressed using a video codec, like h264 etc. So you won't gain much from using 7 zip. I'd be interested to see what space gain you actually achieve.
Secondly I don't think Kodi supports compressed video files anyway. The rar support is for uncompressed rars only.
Thirdly hard drive space is cheap.
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Zipping videos is ludicrous. The amount on disk space is perhaps 0.5-1.0 percent at the very best. It's simply not worth all the troubles.
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Considering the overheads for the actual 7zip file, I wonder if any zip files come out larger than the actual unzipped movie?
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Hopefully seb13hus can give us some stats.
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2017-07-09, 02:05
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If you want to compress videos, convert them from h264 to hevc format.
That will give you savings from 40% to 90% compression, depending on the video source.
But that preferrably requires a recent video card for GPU encoding/decoding.
