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Show HN: I developed a video codec for screencasts that reduces videos by 70%
For personal use, in the last months I've developed a video codec for screencasts like tutorials, presentations, qa, etc.
That reduce the size of the video by 70% (more or less).
Now Im thinking in to sell this as a service for business who use it like courses, tutorial, or Qa videos uploaded to github for example.
Real result: 60min tutorial goes from 3.2GB → 800MB
Built in Rust. CLI for now, considering a $20/mo service.
Would you use this?
Thoughts?
- Jiralite 11mo agoWhat's the Weissman score?
- dev_marcospimi 11mo agoHahaha I guess 2.9
- wmf 11mo agoHow does it compare to FFV1?
- dev_marcospimi 11mo agoWell.. i think FFV1 is for keeping perfect quality masters, mine is for making small files people can actually download or reduce storage quotas. Different problems!
- wmf 11mo agoIt sounds like your bitrate is not that much lower though. You need to be 10x better than existing free codecs.
- dev_marcospimi 11mo agoWait, I think you misread the numbers? In my tests: Original bitrate: 9,477 kb/s My compressed: 1,238 kb/s That's 87% lower bitrate (7.6x reduction) Maybe you meant absolute bitrate isn't impressively low? Fair - 1,238 kb/s is still higher than highly-Tuned AV1 (~400-600 kb/s). But compared to what most people export (default OBS/ScreenFlow settings), this is a huge improvement for zero manual tuning.