For holiday gift I was thinking of making USB/microSDs full of TV/movies. The intended recipients are not tech savvy types. They would be using windows computers, normal TVs etc.

What kind of file formats/encodings would be good to package the files in? What is safe and universally usable? And which ones are to be avoided? I'd like to guarentee they'll play without any fooling around with drivers or software.

And I want them to be as small as possible so that I can fit more stuff.

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[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

think you meant to say mpeg. look at your actual comment.

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah they’re right.

.mpreg uses a sophisticated algorithm to identify repeated sections of the compressed file and retain only one of each part with a list of pointers to where they go. The single repeated sections are stored inside the end of the file and during the decompression process they’re inflated and passed out of the end of the file (or removed from the file by cutting into the bitstream at their stored location where they’re inflating).

It’s a new technology that has made traditional file creation kind of obsolete. In about a decade there will probably only be mpreg.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

Sounds like the perfect world to me.