Is this a thing that happens with all FaceTime calls? It’s been so long that honestly don’t remember a time when it didn’t happen. I used to think it was an issue because I was using an iPhone 13, but I just upgraded to the 15 Pro recently, and it’s just as bad as ever.
To be clear, it seems like what is happening is the recipient’s audio gets cut off every time a sound/voice is detected on my end, so as natural conversation flows back and forth, a huge chunk of what the recipient is saying gets cut off. The most popular phrase on our FaceTime calls seems to be “Wait, what did you say??” It’s doubly worse for us as a household with a never-ending toddler.
So what’s up? Is this normal? Or can I fix this somehow?
Note: I know about the Voice Isolation settings. I just find it super annoying that I have to swap between modes multiple times or mute everything in my background each call just to have a halfway understandable FaceTime conversation.
Thanks, y’all!
Considered doing this a few months ago. Depending on the size of your library, it’s a mixed bag. Some concerns:
People on the Plex communities talk about the H265 conversion never being as good a quality as a conversion from a primary or secondary source. I’m not a quality purist, but it might be an issue for some pieces for you. Worth considering.
I ran a test on a season of a TV show I had in 1080p, and the results were about a 70% decrease in file size for each episode, which was huge, but the problem for me was that it (an admittedly very old gaming desktop) took about 6 hours per episode to get that. Having a machine churn like that for the extended time required for a whole library introduces a whole host of issues re: hardware fatigue, heat, electricity, sound, tying up your machine during the whole process, and I’m sure plenty more I’ve forgotten to mention, that might limit the value of embarking on such a task.
It’s generally considered to be much cheaper (and a better use of all of your resources) to just spend what you’d spend doing that on more storage. 16 TB drives running ~ $200 will last anyone except the most extreme 2% of DataHoarders very well for media storage for quite a while.
Anyways, I hope any of this helps. I ended up holding off. The storage space savings are tempting, but the path there is expensive (in more than just $) and probably not worth the investment for most.