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Sid Bala's 2016 essay 'H.264 Is Magic' is drawing renewed attention on Hacker News, where it has gathered around 495 points. The piece explains how the H.264 video compression standard achieves dramatic file size reductions through techniques like prediction, transformation and entropy coding, arguing the results are so efficient they border on astonishing. Readers are revisiting the article to discuss how video compression works and how it holds up years on.
- 2Apple's iPhone photo format frustrates users on other devices●An iPhone photo that won't open elsewhere: Apple says HEIF and HEVC "offer better compression than JPEG and H.264". A ca
Photos taken on iPhones in the default High Efficiency format, using HEIF and HEVC, often fail to open on other devices and platforms. Apple says these formats offer better compression than JPEG and H.264. A fix for new photos is switching Settings › Camera › Formats to Most Compatible, while existing files can be converted to JPEG via Preview on a Mac through File › Export.