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Using https://archive.org/download/ElephantsDream/ed_hd.mp4 Convert to uncompressed YUV420P: $ ffmpeg -i ed_hd.mp4 elephant_dream_uncompressed.yuv Compress with zip with default compression (I also tried -9 but it didn't make much difference): $ zip compressed_elephants_dream.zip elephant_dream_uncompressed.yuv adding: elephant_dream_uncompressed.yuv (deflated 64%) $ ls -la elephant_dream_uncompressed.yuv compressed_…
sorry, i forgot about this thread, and absolutely did not think you'd respond. kudos . yay, you proved a RAW video can be zipped. you're right, i'm wrong. i have to ask though, why? what in the world is this trying to achieve? this has to be one of the worst ideas for making video smaller and useable.
The only case i could see is in high-end video editing or archiving where you need lossless compression, but even then there are lossless formats that provide better compression ratio (i assume), and more importantly better random access which would probably be important to that use case.