Elias looked at the raw data stream. The codec worked by breaking images into blocks, predicting motion, and discarding redundant information. It looked at a frame and asked: What changed? What stayed the same? What can I throw away without losing the soul of the image?
"I wanted to forget," Kael whispered. "I wanted to compress it all. The world was too heavy, Elias. I wanted to discard the redundancy." friendship h265