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I'm slightly impressed that the video (3.4 MB) is only 100 times larger than the original MIDI (33 kB)
by p1mrx 1y ago
I'm slightly impressed that the video (3.4 MB) is only 100 times larger than the original MIDI (33 kB)
- rtkwe 1y agoThat's probably mostly audio too given the vido is a 95% static screen. That has to encode to basically nothing.
- seba_dos1 1y agoIt's 2/3 audio and 1/3 video - 1.1MB. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, most video codecs aren't tremendously efficient with static screens.
- jl6 1y agoThe codec can be tuned to use a very long keyframe interval (e.g. ffmpeg’s -g option), but whether that’s worth the effort is another question.
- rtkwe 1y agoI'm not surprised. Generally the default number of frames between key/I-frames is set pretty low because too many I frames in a row tend to look bad on video content that isn't static and also if you jump to a point between 2 I frames the video can look really weird becasue it hasn't updated the I frame the P frames are manipulating.
- brudgers 1y agoIf you want Midi to render consistently across devices, you are “Significantly Out of Luck.” The audio sounds like it sounds because Microsoft Licensed Roland’s GS Wavetable. Without that you lose timbral information.
- Kwpolska 1y agoThat’s not the Microsoft/Roland sound.
- brudgers 1y agoCanyon.mid on my windows computer is.
- nancyminusone 1y agoYeah, this sounds like an OPL2 to me
- alexjplant 1y agoI remember being _very_ frustrated as a child that the music in "Hover!" sounded significantly different when we upgraded from our 486 to a Pentium II machine. The Sound Blaster gave the music a very distinct quality that was lacking in the software MIDI synthesizer.
- agos 1y agoa good quality soundfont is easily more than 3.4MB! But maybe back then nobody was using a soundfont that big