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by GrantMoyer 729 days ago
Have you ever looked at the size of losslessly compressed video? It's huge. Lossy compression is the only practical way to store and stream video, since it's typically less than 1% of the size of uncompressed video. Lossless compression typically only gets down to about 50% of the size. It's amazing how much information you can throw out from a video, and barely be able to tell the difference.