qarmin / czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
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Similar Video - start the "picture sampling" further into the video file, to avoid intro from skewing results #1193

Open lcluster opened 5 months ago

lcluster commented 5 months ago

Similar opening intro's for videos seem to be skewing videos that are really quite different into being grouped as similar (even when set to very high). Perhaps if FFMPEG was instructed to start taking its video samples a couple minutes into a video (essentially skipping the opening intro from the production company) this would help with this. Perhaps create a parameter allowing for setting the sampling to start 1 minute (or a variable) amount of time into the video.

Otherwise this is an amazing new feature and having tested it on more than 147,000+ files spread over 8 HDDs, this works well. Sometimes I think there might also be a "grouping" issue with the results as a video that shows up in one group that may or may not be mostly identical with the other files grouped with it, I will then find an essentially identical file (resolution will be different) in the very next group. I have seen this happen a few times.
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