As you well know, if you are a user of the service, for a long time Google Photos he offers you free unlimited storage for all types of photos and videos as long as you are willing to upload the files to your cloud with a resize. Well, in the case of videos, some conditions have changed. We explain which formats no longer fit into this generous bag.
'Unsupported' videos are no longer valid
Google has introduced a small change in its storage policy that the guys from Android Police. As you can see when you enter the following help section «Download or delete unsupported videosNow there is a clarification which reads the following:
Important: Videos uploaded after December 6, 2018 take up storage space.
Obviously, this notice is new and tells us that there is certain video formats that no longer benefit from unlimited storage of the company, eating up as much space of the plan that you have associated with your account. This message only appears in this section of the Google Photos help, so it is understood that it only concerns, as we indicated, unsupported formats. And what are those? Well, files counted with one hand, luckily.
And it is that if we consult this other Google Photos Help section, you will check that in the list of accepted video formats the most popular and used by users are found. They are the following (17 formats in total): .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts y . Mkv.
https://youtu.be/ydBjsZnHrwM
As indicated in our source, it is unlikely that you want to save a video in the .vob (a type of DVD-Video file), to cite an example, or a video in .raw, More typical of a professional camera. Still that situation, of course, could happen, so the only thing you need to know now is that since last December 6, Google Photos no longer allows you to store them without taking up the corresponding space in your account.
Probably despite being specific cases, there are so many of us who use Google Photos and its unlimited storage around the world, that there will have been "too many" cases of people who kept files that were not manageable by the platform for free and had to set the limit somewhere. As long as it is like this… we will not protest, Google.