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Back in 2005 there was a collegue at my first job writing video format converters software. He was considered a genius and the stereo type of an introvert softw
by holoduke 3y ago
Back in 2005 there was a collegue at my first job writing video format converters software. He was considered a genius and the stereo type of an introvert software developer. He claimed that one day an entire movie could be compressesed on a single floppydisk. Everybody laughed and thought he was weird. He might be right after all.
- fasa99 3y agoI used to work with a guy like that in 1997, during the bubble, Higgins was his name. He'd claim you could fit every movie ever onto a CD-ROM, at least one day in the future it would be possible. Higgins was weird. I can still recall old Higgins getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to that old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy but then we had some growing up to do.
- djmips 3y agoA deep thought.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoWell, as a reality check, even the soundtrack of a 1hr movie would be 50x floppy size (~50MB vs 1MB) if MP3 compressed. I guess where this sort of generative video "compression" is headed is that the video would be the prompt, and you'd need a 100GB decoder (model) to render it. No doubt one could fit a prompt to generate a movie similar to something specific in a floppy size ("dude gets stuck on mars, grows potatoes in his own shit"). However, 1MB is only enough to hold the words of a book, and one could imagine 100's of movie adaptations (i.e. visualizing the "prompt") of any given book that would all be radically different, so it seems a prompt of this size would only be enough to generate one of these "prompt movie adaptations".