MerlintheMad
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Hi, All.
This is a random topic for a car forum, but this board allows it; and maybe someone of you have insight.
This week, I uploaded a short video of our current snow storm (been going on and off for days now
); it came from my wife's Apple phone. Looking at it on her phone, she apparently has an app that is making it run slow and "dreamy", very pretty, very HD (and, "she" is one hundred percent steady, is if the camera were on a tripod). On my 'puter it does a funny fast/slow replay in unexpanded view (and "her" unsteadiness is back
); but when I expand to full screen, it just shows snow flakes dropping in real time speed; the artifact of the original phone playback is stripped off completely. The quality of the picture is okay, since it is much larger than the apparent HD of her Apple phone. But, when I copied a link to the Dropbox cloud copy and posted it here, I noticed that the entire video is pixelated; especially the first half is just awful; which you can see here. It doesn't look like this on my 'puter, which is the download from my wife's phone.
Dropbox - IMG_6403.MOV - Simplify your life
I should add that looking at this directly from my Dropbox app, via opening Dropbox from the task bar, it is not even half as pixelated as accessing it through the above link.
The question I have is: are uploaded videos losing resolution in the cloud? I've never noticed this before and it worries me: that Dropbox, et al. could save storage space by stripping high impact files of a sizeable portion of their resolution as they are uploaded to the cloud. The implications are dreadful, if true: because it means that anything we are storing in the cloud is not as big (high res) as the original; and if the originals are lost, then all we have is crap to replace them with.
This is a random topic for a car forum, but this board allows it; and maybe someone of you have insight.
This week, I uploaded a short video of our current snow storm (been going on and off for days now
); it came from my wife's Apple phone. Looking at it on her phone, she apparently has an app that is making it run slow and "dreamy", very pretty, very HD (and, "she" is one hundred percent steady, is if the camera were on a tripod). On my 'puter it does a funny fast/slow replay in unexpanded view (and "her" unsteadiness is back); but when I expand to full screen, it just shows snow flakes dropping in real time speed; the artifact of the original phone playback is stripped off completely. The quality of the picture is okay, since it is much larger than the apparent HD of her Apple phone. But, when I copied a link to the Dropbox cloud copy and posted it here, I noticed that the entire video is pixelated; especially the first half is just awful; which you can see here. It doesn't look like this on my 'puter, which is the download from my wife's phone.Dropbox - IMG_6403.MOV - Simplify your life
I should add that looking at this directly from my Dropbox app, via opening Dropbox from the task bar, it is not even half as pixelated as accessing it through the above link.
The question I have is: are uploaded videos losing resolution in the cloud? I've never noticed this before and it worries me: that Dropbox, et al. could save storage space by stripping high impact files of a sizeable portion of their resolution as they are uploaded to the cloud. The implications are dreadful, if true: because it means that anything we are storing in the cloud is not as big (high res) as the original; and if the originals are lost, then all we have is crap to replace them with.
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