Re:How does a video codec work?
by RivieraKid on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:45AM
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Why is it worth learning? I have a long list of stuff that I want to learn but codecs don't seem useful enough to be included there.
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Codecs teach you if the high fidelity of the data you store may not be as important as you'd think it is, and sometimes you'd be able to process all of that with a fraction of the compute power and cost involved.