VIDEO_TS to AVI and (maybe) back to VIDEO_TS

[macbuz]

WTF - I can hear it now .... just thinking about archiving and disk space. How bad is the quality hit with a workflow like that. I mean if you encode your TS's to avi, then someday want a TS from that avi, would the quality be worth it?

Just thinking about it. Cramming more into less with a back door. Kinda like having your cake and eating it to.

Thank you.

[jman98]

Kinda like having your cake and eating it to.

Better analogy - Kinda like cutting your cake in half and throwing away one half of it and keeping one half. Then going to part of the cake you kept and wishing you had the whole cake.

Once you convert, you lose video information. At best your conversion may look the same to you as the original, but it will be a little worse even if you can't see it. Then you want to convert again back to the original format, which will lose quality again. At this point you're probably going to be able to see a difference. Disk drives are cheap. Skip the conversion idea (saves time not to convert anyway) and just buy a bigger disk drive.

[macbuz]

Better analogy - Kinda like cutting your cake in half and throwing away one half of it and keeping one half. Then going to part of the cake you kept and wishing you had the whole cake.

<<<<<<< What I thought, just making sure.

Once you convert, you lose video information. At best your conversion may look the same to you as the original, but it will be a little worse even if you can't see it. Then you want to convert again back to the original format, which will lose quality again. At this point you're probably going to be able to see a difference. Disk drives are cheap. Skip the conversion idea (saves time not to convert anyway) and just buy a bigger disk drive.

This will be the plan then when I start running out of current space which is gonna be soon. Thanks for this.