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1. arunisaac solariiknight

   There may be a genuine human need for videos. But, I don't have a clue why websites need to be as bloated as they are.

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   • drak

     With the improvements in codecs, we can now stream many kinds of video with the bandwidth from 2004 (even over ISDN!).

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   • drak drak

     Here’s a HD video of a song which needs just 300kib/s: https://www.draketo.de/files/2017-10-11-new-horizons-for-science-im-IMK-ASF-KIT-filk-song-arne-babenhauserheide-based-on-new-horizons-IMG_2297-vp9.webm — 2x the size of an mp3 back in the days! https://www.draketo.de/node/803

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   • arunisaac drak

     Wow, nice! I too noticed the improvement in codecs, but never paused to think whether the improvements in streaming were due to improvements in codecs or my bandwidth.

     vor ca. 3 Monaten
   • drak

     AV1 promises another 30% reduction in bandwidth for video, and for audio opus actually works down to 9kbit/s but sounds compressed <16kbit/s

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