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Demystify video codecs by writing one in ~100 lines of Rust
Hello, Video Codec!.
In this post, we’ll explore at a high level the key concepts and defining characteristics of video codecs. Then, to further demystify them, we’ll even implement one from scratch in about a hundred lines of Rust.
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