Why are you surpried? It’s actually possible. You just need so much computing power like around 64 GB ram and High End CPU to Pack and Unpack both.
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abfarid@startrek.website 2 months ago
No way media compressed 5x.
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
abfarid@startrek.website 2 months ago
Because modern media formats are already compressed by default and have very little redundancy in them.
reev@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Was thinking the same thing
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Maybe they store images as uncompressed .bmp for some reason
Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
bmp should not compress more than other media files. jpeg, png, etc. can compress so much because they are lossy
Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Png is lossless
Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You’re right. png can be lossy but that’s uncommon in the wild.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Three files of the same image: A png (15.7MiB), a bmp (28.8MiB) and a bmp.zip (16.4MiB)
Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The image doesn’t look like a photo. The meme is about porn. Digital images can contain large areas of repeating patterns (uniform color areas for example) that can be compressed losslessly pretty well. Even slight noise from an image sensor can block that kind of compression pretty well.