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YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by bluedays »

saint_angels wrote: post #71

Reminds me of a guy who stored data in ping messages https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

I watch these things and I begin to realize I'll never be as intelligent as someone like this. It's good to know no matter how much you're grown there is always a bigger fish.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by NonNefarious »

anyfoo wrote: post #118

I only looked at the example video, but is the concept just "big enough pixels"? Would be neater (and much more efficient) to encode the data such that it's exactly untouched by the compression algorithm, e.g. by encoding the data in wavelets and possibly motion vectors that the algorithm is known to keep[1]. Of course that would also be a lot of work, and likely fall apart once the video is re-encoded. [1] If that's…

Back in the day, VCRs were commonly used as tape backup devices for data.

Now studios are using motion-picture film to store data, since it's known to be stable for a century or more.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by qorrect »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #112
behnamoh wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

apparently e-mail is not much reliable for storing/keeping files. there have been cases where an old email with an attachment would not load correctly because the servers just erased the attachment file.

This was a custom email server though, there never were any emails, it just presented files as though they were so that a client would download them. Actually caused some problems for email clients, as they usually assumed emails were small. I got a few of them to crash with 200 Mb "attachments" (although this was in the early 00s, 200Mb was bigger than it is today).

I'm still confused on how this worked, did you email some address and get a reply with the attachment ?

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by qorrect »

bluedays wrote: post #183
saint_angels wrote: post #71

Reminds me of a guy who stored data in ping messages https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

I watch these things and I begin to realize I'll never be as intelligent as someone like this. It's good to know no matter how much you're grown there is always a bigger fish.

I agree that there will always be smarter fish, but you can definitely be this smart it just takes the proper motivation ( or weird idea ) to wiggle its way into your brain.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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ALittleLight wrote: post #180
softfalcon wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree it would be cool to be "untouched" by the compression algorithm, but that's nearly impossible with YouTube. YouTube encodes down to several different versions of a video and on top of that, several different codecs to support different devices with different built-in video hardware decoders. For example, when I upload a 4K vid and then watch the 4K stream on my Mac vs my PC, I get different video files solely b…

What if you have an ML model that produces a vector from a given image. You have a set of vectors that correspond to bytes - for a simple example you have 256 "anchor vectors" that correspond to any possible byte. To compress data an arbitrary sequence of bytes, for each byte, you produce an image that your ML model would convert to the corresponding anchor vector for that byte and add the image as a frame in a video…

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