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Nanonymous No.1312 [D][S][L][A][C] >>1317 >>1327

The age of tor and VPN's is fast approaching, this much is blatantly clear to anyone posting here. The real question is how can we compress image and video files as much as possible to make browsing online with lower bandwidth a better experience. Everyday I see niggers posting giant ass 5mb picture files. It's time we set a standard for compressing this shit and achieved true media minimalism, especially when it comes to things like webms which are so consistently poorly made.

Nanonymous No.1316 [D]

What if Hakase extended whatever he uses to make thumbnails to make something in the middle with 720p resolution (at most) and preserves videos? It'd put more effort on the server though since it'd have to do all the video encoding, but with a low PPH this shouldn't be too bad. Alternatively the limit could be enforced on uploads and if you want to upload something big you need to embed an IPFS file or something FILECOIN WHEN?.

Nanonymous No.1317 [D]

>>1312
Considering that people get VPNs just for torrenting, it's not really an issue. Tor is maybe a bit different can't torrent but it's not like there are bandwidth issues there either, anymore. I don't know anything besides i2p where this becomes an issue, and maybe some future meshnet cyber dystopia scenario.

Nanonymous No.1319 [D]

There are compression tools for PNG and JPG that don't shit on the image.
As for video, I have no idea. AV1 looks promising, but it's mean to be used on high resolution, not 480p.

Nanonymous No.1327 [D] >>1395

>>1312
Zopflipng can be used to compress existing PNGs to around 70% of their original size without losing picture quality (this takes a long time though). WebP and FLIF can be used to recompress them losslessly but I don't think nanochan has support for that.
There's a guy on the /a/ goblin slayer thread who managed to crush down entire episodes to 16MB in a quality which is not high but watchable. He used VP9 with -deadline best as far as I can tell. AV1 should be better but it takes a lot longer.

Nanonymous No.1395 [D] >>1398

I started compressing all my PNG files using pngquant with the -s1 setting. Reduced the overall size of my PNGs by around 60%. It's a lossy compression, but I think it's fine for screenshots, or honestly any type of image you won't edit afterwards and just want to share.

>>1327
Never heard of Zopflipng. I'll try it.

Nanonymous No.1398 [D] >>1400

>>1395
>It's a lossy compression
What makes it better than jpeg, then?

Nanonymous No.1400 [D]

>>1398
keeps transparency, size is sometimes lower than jpeg while looking much better.

Nanonymous No.1432 [D]

Only save thumbnails. It's the only way.

Actually, let's migrate to a bbs

Nanonymous No.1536 [D]

tor isn't slow, it merely has high (ish) latency, which gets amplified about 100x when you use shitty web services. and if that "age" ever came, such services would just get more bandwidth.