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0 pointsRavlaAlvar6y ago0 comments

Wouldn’t YouTube re-encode the video and mess up with the data?

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If you look at the example video, the videos are encoded in relatively large blocks that are easily recoverable from compression.

You just need enough redundancy/error correction.

Back in the day there were systems to back up to VHS tapes and those were way more lossy than YouTube https://youtu.be/TUS0Zv2APjU

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yunyu6y ago

If you look at the example video, the videos are encoded in relatively large blocks that are easily recoverable from compression.

You just need enough redundancy/error correction.

Back in the day there were systems to back up to VHS tapes and those were way more lossy than YouTube https://youtu.be/TUS0Zv2APjU

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