How to find and delete duplicate video (.mp4) files?
I have 16,000+ short video clips and there are lots of them that are exactly alike to the human eye, but if you examine very closely you will find that one or the other may have an extra 1 second (or much much less) duration at the beginning or the end.
I have already tried several methods and had zero success in finding duplicates. You would think that comparing exact byte size would be good enough since bytes are so small. But no! The reason why not is because there may be a slight extra (or non-extra) few milliseconds in the beginning or end of the video clips. This causes them to be different and not identical, resulting in any duplicate finder using "byte for byte comparison" result no duplicate results.
And although the majority of the video clip is exactly like several others, nothing I use is finding any duplicates because of the few milliseconds difference at the beginning or at the end of the compared .mp4 files.
Does anyone know how I might find success in finding duplicates of these short video clip .mp4 files? On average they are about 30 seconds each, however its only a few milliseconds extra (or non-extra) at the beginning or end of another that to the human eye would be exactly the same.
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I have 16,000+ short video clips and there are lots of them that are exactly alike to the human eye, but if you examine very closely you will find that one or the other may have an extra 1 second (or much much less) duration at the beginning or the end.
I have already tried several methods and had zero success in finding duplicates. You would think that comparing exact byte size would be good enough since bytes are so small. But no! The reason why not is because there may be a slight extra (or non-extra) few milliseconds in the beginning or end of the video clips. This causes them to be different and not identical, resulting in any duplicate finder using "byte for byte comparison" result no duplicate results.
And although the majority of the video clip is exactly like several others, nothing I use is finding any duplicates because of the few milliseconds difference at the beginning or at the end of the compared .mp4 files.
Does anyone know how I might find success in finding duplicates of these short video clip .mp4 files? On average they are about 30 seconds each, however its only a few milliseconds extra (or non-extra) at the beginning or end of another that to the human eye would be exactly the same.
linux files find video file-comparison
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I have 16,000+ short video clips and there are lots of them that are exactly alike to the human eye, but if you examine very closely you will find that one or the other may have an extra 1 second (or much much less) duration at the beginning or the end.
I have already tried several methods and had zero success in finding duplicates. You would think that comparing exact byte size would be good enough since bytes are so small. But no! The reason why not is because there may be a slight extra (or non-extra) few milliseconds in the beginning or end of the video clips. This causes them to be different and not identical, resulting in any duplicate finder using "byte for byte comparison" result no duplicate results.
And although the majority of the video clip is exactly like several others, nothing I use is finding any duplicates because of the few milliseconds difference at the beginning or at the end of the compared .mp4 files.
Does anyone know how I might find success in finding duplicates of these short video clip .mp4 files? On average they are about 30 seconds each, however its only a few milliseconds extra (or non-extra) at the beginning or end of another that to the human eye would be exactly the same.
linux files find video file-comparison
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I have 16,000+ short video clips and there are lots of them that are exactly alike to the human eye, but if you examine very closely you will find that one or the other may have an extra 1 second (or much much less) duration at the beginning or the end.
I have already tried several methods and had zero success in finding duplicates. You would think that comparing exact byte size would be good enough since bytes are so small. But no! The reason why not is because there may be a slight extra (or non-extra) few milliseconds in the beginning or end of the video clips. This causes them to be different and not identical, resulting in any duplicate finder using "byte for byte comparison" result no duplicate results.
And although the majority of the video clip is exactly like several others, nothing I use is finding any duplicates because of the few milliseconds difference at the beginning or at the end of the compared .mp4 files.
Does anyone know how I might find success in finding duplicates of these short video clip .mp4 files? On average they are about 30 seconds each, however its only a few milliseconds extra (or non-extra) at the beginning or end of another that to the human eye would be exactly the same.
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