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Watching on YouTube and suffering through the compression artifacts made me think that the code has reached near absolute compression ratio of the resulting aud
by ballenf 6y ago
Watching on YouTube and suffering through the compression artifacts made me think that the code has reached near absolute compression ratio of the resulting audio/video.
Kind of astounding to think that the 720p50 video from YouTube is millions if not billions of times larger than the code that produced it and is still incredibly lossy.
(Re: compression, if we're being technical then the C64 machine instructions that the code calls would need to be included in the total. I think?)
- tgtweak 6y agoThere are almost NO moving parts in this video - where a group of pixels could be predictably shifted on the screen between frames with minimal changes - and the frequency that color and intensity are changing means that nearly every other optimization (aside from color-space compression) is thrown out. It is an impressive display of how much video compression optimization is dependent on the fundamentals of the things we are recording/producing in the real world.
- 0-_-0 6y agoIt's easy to create a signal that would be damaged by compression in much less than 256 bytes.