arcane@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoComing to you soon...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square427fedilinkarrow-up11.57Karrow-down131cross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
arrow-up11.54Karrow-down1imageComing to you soon...lemmy.worldarcane@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square427fedilinkcross-posted to: mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
minus-squareHello Hotel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 year agoAnother thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to 3 4 bytes. “another” as wav file
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoAudio can and usually is compressed quite well. When it’s just human voice, you can be very aggressive with losing specific parts of data. Videos however aren’t as simple - unless you go with very short ones, which YouTube doesn’t.
Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to
34 bytes.“another” as wav file
Audio can and usually is compressed quite well. When it’s just human voice, you can be very aggressive with losing specific parts of data.
Videos however aren’t as simple - unless you go with very short ones, which YouTube doesn’t.