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The PNG size seems to be misrepresented. The actual PNG is 637273 bytes when I download it, and 597850 if I recompress it to make sure we're not getting fooled
by el0j 10y ago
The PNG size seems to be misrepresented. The actual PNG is 637273 bytes when I download it, and 597850 if I recompress it to make sure we're not getting fooled by a bad PNG writer.
So instead of the reported 916KiB we're looking at 584KiB.
This doesn't change the overall point, but details matter.
$ wget https://sidbala.com/content/images/2016/11/FramePNG.png
--2016-11-04 22:08:08-- https://sidbala.com/content/images/2016/11/FramePNG.png
Resolving sidbala.com (sidbala.com)... 104.25.17.18, 104.25.16.18, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:1112, ...
Connecting to sidbala.com (sidbala.com)|104.25.17.18|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [image/png]
Saving to: ‘FramePNG.png’
FramePNG.png [ <=> ] 622.34K --.-KB/s in 0.05s
2016-11-04 22:08:08 (12.1 MB/s) - ‘FramePNG.png’ saved [637273]
$ pngout FramePNG.png
In: 637273 bytes FramePNG.png /c2 /f5
Out: 597850 bytes FramePNG.png /c2 /f5
Chg: -39423 bytes ( 93% of original)
- nartsbtaa 10y agoWhy even compare PNG and H.264 to begin with? PNG is a lossless compression format. A better comparison would be something lossy like JPG, which could easily shrink the size to ~100 kB. The point still stands, but at least it's a more relevant comparison.