H.264 is magic (2016)

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Sid Bala wrote a walkthrough of how H.264 video compression works, published on sidbala.com. He starts with a demonstration: a screen capture of the Apple homepage, 300 frames long, encodes to 175KB as H.264. A single frame of that same video saved as PNG is 1015KB. The post covers the main tricks…