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Despite many alternatives offering their services, the JPEG image format remains king. Seeing as it’s unlikely to be supplanted anytime soon, companies such as Google and Dropbox have been working hard to squeeze every last byte out of its compression abilities. For Dropbox, the solution was Lepton, delivering images 22…
You don’t need a Weissman score to know that today’s video encoders are incredibly good at what they do and will continue to get better as hardware power increases. So how exactly does an encoder, such as H.264, compress gigabytes of video into megabytes? It’s complex, sure, but very explainable.
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