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Why are people thanking the OP? Cool how you CAN compress 47 minutes of audio down to 1.6MB if you're willing to accept awful sound quality, sure. Why though?
by Luc 7y ago
Why are people thanking the OP?
Cool how you CAN compress 47 minutes of audio down to 1.6MB if you're willing to accept awful sound quality, sure. Why though? I mean, why thank the OP for their service? I don't get it.
- fouc 7y agoHopefully the Speex algorithm uses Hamming Code.
- Luc 7y agoWell the SpeeX Codec Manual mentions a 'Hamming window'...
- ChrisRR 7y agoBecause processing power,bandwidth, storage space, battery capacity are not limitless resources. Computing power has been massively increased over the last few decades and yet we don't often see the 1000x increase in performance that we really should as developers have often squandered that performance. The closer we get to pushing the limits of physics, while still expecting computing to be faster, higher resolution, etc. We should commend any efforts to make computing more efficient and less resource intensive.
- cvnyw 7y agoYeah okay, but he didn't invent the codecs or anything... he just compressed some lectures using them. It's like patting someone on the back for knowing how to use ffmpeg.
- Luc 7y agoSpeex is cool technology from what I can tell, but it's not exactly designed to run on a Commodore 64. E.g. it's used for the voice compression of commands sent to Siri. What it saves in bandwidth, it pays in processing power. But anyway, that still doesn't explain why posting these files is so cool that the post shot to the top of HN.
- misterman0 7y ago>> that still doesn't explain why posting these files is so cool that the post shot to the top of HN. This article shot to the top because of at least three things: 1. It was well written. 2. It had to do with cool tech in a complicated problem space. I only know those two.
- asaddhamani 7y agoIt's barely decipherable.
- aeneasmackenzie 7y agoBecause he made a funny joke.
- Luc 7y agoOh I see! Fair enough.