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		jraph on Aug 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux Pipes Are Slow > There was some minimal quality loss, of course, but it was completely irrelevant in the big picture But then the solutions are not comparable anymore, are they? Would a lossless codec instead have improved speed?

Sesse__ on Aug 26, 2024 | [–]

No, because I had hardware H.264 encoder support. :-) (The decoding in FFmpeg on the other side was still software. But it was seemingly much cheaper to do a H.264 software decode.)

chupasaurus on Aug 26, 2024 | [–]

H.264 has lossless mode.

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