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by tyleo 202 days ago
Wow, their compression algorithm sounds interesting.

> When the Rewind app came out in 2022, it made quite a splash, thanks to the company’s “mind-boggling compression” system, which could transform more than 10GB of recorded data into a file smaller than 3MB.

It’s giving me middle-out vibes.

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They didn't have their own compression algorithm; they used ffmpeg to compress screen recordings to MP4 files at 0.5 FPS. https://kevinchen.co/blog/rewind-ai-app-teardown/