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very recently someone created a method to encode files and data into videos - this video could then be uploaded to youtube, and distributed / stored permanently
by callamdelaney 6y ago
very recently someone created a method to encode files and data into videos - this video could then be uploaded to youtube, and distributed / stored permanently there.
- stevewodil 6y agoHow could that be possible though as YouTube doesn't serve the original video file back to users? It get processed to create different video streams, so this seems pretty crazy
- callamdelaney 6y agoAccording to the creator, /u/T0X1K01 on reddit: > No, that's what's so cool about it. I explain it in more detail in the video, but basically because the videos are created using 1-bit color images, it makes it easy to retrieve data without having to worry about how YouTube changes the video. There's a video explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_ZIr0q5rU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_ZIr0q5rU&feature=youtu.be Source code here: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/fvid/ https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/fvid/ An example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzZDFxM5Coo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzZDFxM5Coo
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoBut you won't be able to download it - youtube-dl is not with us anymore.
- account42 6y agoThere was a new version released yesterday. [0] [0] http://youtube-dl.org/ http://youtube-dl.org/