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  1. pankul

    Unexplainable Altitude/Velocity Variations During RTH

    recently updated to Fly app 1.2.4 also appears to be a common element
  2. pankul

    Unexplainable Altitude/Velocity Variations During RTH

    Same exact thing happened to me recently around the same date Feb 8th 5p local time. temp 28F Sun low on the horizon. There is a lot of snow on the ground, perhaps that adds to the root cause ? in my case I was RTH towards west, and sun was right in the face of the drone. did the same thing...
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    Should I compress Mavic Mini videos? How?

    JPG files are highly compressed bitmaps with lossy compression. my inspiration was this article ... please review this ... and reconsider https://coderunner.io/how-to-compress-gopro-movies-and-keep-metadata/
  4. pankul

    Should I compress Mavic Mini videos? How?

    with due respect, I do understand compression both for data, audio & video. I am also aware of Lossless vs lossy compression and its use cases. :-) I am a computer science geek. I was trying to help the original poster with his query.... suggesting what they are after is possible... I have...
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    Should I compress Mavic Mini videos? How?

    Yes but we are talking about long term storage ... my 300+ GB videos from last 10 days are now stored as 60GB ... there is value in that ... by taking advantage of the codec h265. Kinda like compressing your data files with ZIP
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    Should I compress Mavic Mini videos? How?

    I think I have cracked the code on this .. I was able to compress my h265 60fps 4k recordings to 1/5 of their size with no visible quality loss to my eyes. Interested ? It involves use of command line utility called ffmpeg first download ffmpeg https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows...