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I swear I once saw a special encoder format built specifically for compressing south park episodes, but I've never been able to find it again.
by 0xfaded 6y ago
I swear I once saw a special encoder format built specifically for compressing south park episodes, but I've never been able to find it again.
- malux85 6y agoYes!!! I remember this too!!! But it was so long ago I don’t have the link, I only responded to you to help verify that it was a real thing and you’re not dreaming Or maybe we all are dreaming 🧐 Ok that got meta quickly
- ThePadawan 6y agoI remember RMVB being very popular for animated shows (I seem to remember Family Guy most of all). It had very good compression ratios.
- Hamuko 6y agoI remember watching ~50 MB RMVB anime fansub releases circa 2004.
- shifto 6y agoYes, this was how I was able to watch 200 Naruto episodes before there was streaming video. Good times torrenting all these RealPlayer files on my 50KB/s DSL connection/
- dmos62 6y agoMy network provider capped my bandwidth to 1mbps because of this for like five years in the early to mid 2000s. They said I used more bandwidth than an entire apartment building (not a small one). Very early days of mainstream pirating. It was a makeshift internet provider that used (stole, I guess) internet access from a nearby university.
- hexmiles 6y agoNot a special encoder, but i've seen (and used) waifu-2x to upscale low-bitrate/low-resolution video. I also swear that I've already seen a vector/cartoon optimized codec, but my google-ability are lacking.