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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Explore episode May 6, 2026

Compression is not like a zip, right? A zip, you have data in, you get data out. Here we are degrading the signal, and so we need to degrade both the audio and the video signal in the best way possible.

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