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What exactly is transcoding?
Hi, I'm looking to dive into ReadyNAS and get all of my pictures and music somewhere central so they're shared across all of my devices. As a bonus, and something I don't do today, I'd also like t...
HERBIEO wrote: Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital data conversion of one encoding to another such as movie files or audio files. This is usually done in cases where a target device does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size.
I assume I'm fine with music, since they're just MP3s and everything under the sun supports MP3s... how big of a deal is this with video these days? My target devices are mostly Android (Honeycomb and above), and iPhone 4's+, iPad 2+ type devices. I also have an xbox 360 that would be an added benefit, but probably not a deal killer if it didn't work.
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