So, I’m selfhosting immich, the issue is we tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene/thing to later pick the best, and well, we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates but not quite.
Some duplicate finding programs put those images at 95% or more similarity.
I’m wondering if there’s any way, probably at file system level, for the same images to be compressed together.
Maybe deduplication?
Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?
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I don’t think there’s anything commercially available that can do it.
However, as an experiment, you could:
- Get a group of photos from a burst shot
- Encode them as individual frames using a modern video codec using, eg VLC.
- See what kind of file size you get with the resulting video output.
- See what artifacts are introduced when you play with encoder settings.
You could probably/eventually script this kind of operation if you have software that can automatically identify and group images.
