2026-05-16 –, Track 2
This is a story all about how video takes up WAY more data than you think, a bit of history, and a dive into how we play with quality, motion vectors and even how our eyes perceive colour to compress it.
Video takes up a LOT of data. Each pixel is 3 bytes if you're only using 8 bit colour and the numbers get wild as resolution, framerate and bit depth goes up.
How does video encoding work in general? What improvements have we seen throughout history? Could the planet's infrastructure survive a world without video compression? Should you maybe use GPU encoding for your video projects? (Spoiler: Yes)
Time to dig into one of those things we never even think about, let alone take for granted - Video encoding.
Former ENUSEC president, tinkerer (breaker) of many devices, that one idiot with the LED jacket collar.
I got a First Class Honours BEng in Computing from Napier and I'm using it to make computers do janky and relatively insecure things.