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by GaggiX 11 days ago
I would love to see comparisons with AV1 on very low bitrates.
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Return of the 8MB Shrek encodes?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210416200451/https://cdn.disco...

Shrek 1 at 8.34MB including audio.. insane

There's a 64MB game boy advance cartridge with shrek on it [1]. Looks pretty horrible [2]. But the GBA only has 16KB fast / 256KB slow RAM, and a 16MHz CPU.

[1] https://archive.org/details/Shrek-Video-GBA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOfPZQl4MI

Video resolution: 128x72, hahah. Late 90s RealPlayer postage stamp video is back! To its credit, that whole movie is probably smaller than RealPlayer itself was.
I love this, hope to see a AV2 version at 8MB
I once watched an entire movie (around 90 mins) on a Nokia 6303. This reminds me of that
6MB should be enough for everyone!
Almost half of the file is audio, so you're not saving as much.
Hopefully audio codecs will progress as well.

I noticed that too. When I tried extreme screen recording compression with AV1 audio became a noticeable part of the bottleneck.

Is opus being used for the audio or it's not the solution for extreme lossy compression?
OPUS is the default now, but there's more room. Especially with neural codecs.