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A GitHub project has enabled encoding files as lossless video for YouTube storage, gaining 367 stars despite Terms of Service violations and account termination risk.

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You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...

Computers are great at automating repetitive tasks, right? But many of us encoding professionals spend a great deal of time repeating the same actions again and again. We point-and-click to set the ...

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I tried editing PDF files from a magazine I am subscribed to on my Mac in Preview and on my iPad in the Files app by deleting pages that I was not interested in. I would expect the file size to get ...