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Usually a local HTTP server. But I've wondered before if binary data could be encoded in to a video file and then uploaded to youtube or some other video servic

• RealStickman_ 6y ago
  Any compression would ruin that. Though it should be possible to do what you described with 16MP pictures and upload them to google drive. Those won't be compressed according to someone under that LTT video where they abuse 5 business accounts for their backup.
  • esaym 6y ago
    >Any compression would ruin that. Well not really. You could have an entire frame as a solid color red to represent a '1' and a solid white frame to represent a '0'. At 24 fps, that is 3 bytes per second and would certainly survive compression. Just keep drilling down, half a frame that is red and another half that is white would represent a '10' pair, now you've doubled your throughput. You could keep cutting these blocks down until you get to a limit, you certainly couldn't get down to a single pixel, but some factor of that. Plus you could use an encoding with error correction instead of just raw binary data.
    • ta95846893 6y ago
      Sounds like you'll end up with a couple of qr codes per frame in the end, which would probably survive compression
• Budabellly 6y ago
  example of that! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916205