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▲ WhitneyLand 7 hours ago

"The H.264 video, 300 frames long is 175KB. A single frame of that video in PNG is 1015KB. It looks like we're storing 300 times the amount of data in the video. But the file size is a fifth. So H.264 would seem to be 1500x as efficient as PNG. How is this even possible? All right, what's the trick?"

Mostly the trick is they're comparing lossy to lossless compression which doesn't even make any sense.