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[โ€“] tsd6502@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Compressing 909MB down to 28MB must require some serious compression, must be pretty processer intensive for the reddit servers doing that

Hardware encoders are common and "cheap" these days. They may not be as good as properly tuned software based encoders, but they are fast.