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BEEdwards on Nov 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: H.264 is Magic

"This post will give insight into some of the details at a high level - I hope to not bore you too much with the intricacies."

Did you miss the third paragraph?

As someone who knew nothing about it before, I found it lived up to it's goal.

iainmerrick on Nov 4, 2016 [–]

I think they just mean it shouldn't be "H.264 is magic", it should just be "video compression is magic" or some such. That irked me a little bit too.

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