Re:MoMA’s Digital Art Vault
by zachrose on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:29PM
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For sure. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 8K scans of some things, too. I would be curious how much compression their archival system does on top of whatever original format was used.
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FFV1 has been gaining popularity as an archival (lossless) video codec. It gets about 2:1 compression. I would guess that higher-res scans would compress better because neighboring pixels would look more similar, but I haven't seen any actual data supporting that. Lossless audio codecs like FLAC also get about 2:1 compression, so I'd use that as a rule of thumb for archival audio & video in general.