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Question: Are large video files okay?

See original GitHub issue

I am planning to use pigallery2 on my full photos/video collection, which is about 50K files taking ~460GB. I have several video files that are huge and long. See distribution of file sizes below. Everything above ~50MB mark should be videos (mostly h.264 and h.265 in mp4/mkv container).

Should I be aware of any potential issues or otherwise when using such (large?) collection with pigallery2?

Filesize: count
  1k:    317
  2k:     81
  4k:     91
  8k:     82
 16k:    485
 32k:    846
 64k:   1633
128k:   2759
256k:   1728
512k:   2345
  1M:   5847
  2M:  20390
  4M:   6510
  8M:   3419
 16M:   2514
 32M:    821
 64M:    171
128M:    102
256M:     51
512M:     19
  1G:      8
  2G:      5
  4G:     10
  8G:      4
 16G:      1

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:16 (9 by maintainers)

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cbhushancommented, May 21, 2021

Sorry for delayed response. Based on my limited tests pigallery2 is working exactly as I wanted 👍. I must have messed up something is settings earlier that resulted in lots of transcoding.

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bpatrikcommented, Mar 30, 2021

The app does not do on the fly transcoding, only if you hit the transcode button explicitly: kép Or if you schedule a job: kép (you can think of a job like linux crontab)

If there is no transcoded video version available, it uses the original file (cannot recall what happens with those that needs trascoding, hopefully wont get listed at all). This is the same for images. App can scale down photos, that significantly improves the preview, but it does not do that on the fly. It only generates thumbnails on the fly