Video Compression Techniques

Discussions focus on video encoding processes, lossy compression artifacts, codec efficiency (e.g., HEVC, AV1, MPEG), re-encoding quality loss, and trade-offs between speed, quality, and bandwidth.

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anonuser123456 β€’ Oct 4, 2022 β€’ View on HN

All video is compressed in a lossy manner.

bluthru β€’ Apr 10, 2014 β€’ View on HN

Better encoding will help:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding

lokl β€’ Jun 26, 2020 β€’ View on HN

Has this been extended to video (beyond compressing each frame separately)?

alayne β€’ Oct 9, 2013 β€’ View on HN

Surely you'd prefer to encode video much faster than real time.

namaria β€’ Jan 3, 2025 β€’ View on HN

Youtube compression algorithm also produces lots of artifacts that were never filmed by the video producers

chomp β€’ Sep 22, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Does this actually make a better picture? Won’t your stream still be super compressed by meet/zoom/etc?

bdeorus β€’ Jan 25, 2018 β€’ View on HN

Wouldn't this limit video post-processing (e.g. color correction, etc.) ?

cerved β€’ Apr 28, 2021 β€’ View on HN

right but we're not talking about compressing a video stream but compressing individually compressed pictures, big difference

jhrobert β€’ Nov 18, 2010 β€’ View on HN

I hope the video codec can cope with this, or else this is going to eat a lot of bandwidth for nothing.

leoc β€’ Aug 24, 2020 β€’ View on HN

I assume it's also because it's ridiculously compressible compared to more normal video of similar resolution?