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I'm curious as to why you chose to turn the screenshots into a video. What are the benefits of storing them like that instead of as image files?
by Sakos 3y ago
I'm curious as to why you chose to turn the screenshots into a video. What are the benefits of storing them like that instead of as image files?
- jasonjmcghee 3y agoDramatically smaller size on disk. Video codecs leverage representing things using diffs. Think about a 2 minute video of someone reading an article online. Then think of 60 screenshots of someone reading that article over 2 minutes. The 60 screenshots are likely ~15-30MB. The video is probably like 3MB or less and that’s without doing much of anything. Any time the user is idle, that’s kind of free in a video. An image, it wouldn’t be.
- Sakos 3y agoHow much more complex is it to go through the images as frames in a video? Is all the processing (like OCR) done before it's added to the video or is that something you can do on each frame?