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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by miohtama on Saturday August 20, 2022 @01:25PM (#32533693)
Video files have already entropy coding applied to them and thus any compression gains with reapplying a generic entropy coding like zstd are unlikely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_coding

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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by sicp-enjoyer on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:11PM (#32534024)
That's exactly what the poster is saying.
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