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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by bitL on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:10PM (#23278138)
If it's HEVC it would be pretty small. Also, I doubt many people would be interested in that content. Storage-space wise, it's all internally de-duplicated so identical blocks across multiple files of their users are likely stored only once + number of replicas-times. If it were frequently downloaded, CDN/caches would have made it cost-efficient as well.
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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by londons_explore on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:10AM (#23289285)
Videos on Google drive are transcoded to tens of different formats for viewing, depending on the devices hardware decoders and bandwidth available.
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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by pfisch on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:52PM (#23278457)
> Also, I doubt many people would be interested in that content.

I don't think that is true at all.

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