id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	parents
472	An option to use uploaded audio/video file “as is”, without transcoding	Aleksej		"Sometimes a video or audio file is uploaded in a format used by GMG for publishing files, but GMG transcodes the file anyway.  That makes sense for security and possibly privacy, but sometimes it’s more of a waste of resources.

Proposal: an option to let files be used without transcoding.
* Use that way only video files up to certain dimensions (compared to the target dimensions), maybe also considering the file size (files with big video dimensions may still be OK if the file size is small).
* Transcode only the data that is not in the target format.  Thus an Ogg/Vorbis file becomes WebM/Vorbis without transcoding.
* For security reasons, the option should probably be disabled server-side by default.  Maybe (in the future) enable it for particular users or user groups.
"	enhancement	new	minor		programming			odin.omdal@…