Is There Any Way To Compress Large Files Online From A Url Into A?

Is There Any Way To Compress Large Files Online From A Url Into A?

I’m tempted to just say “no”. However, you don’t specify how the “movie” is stored to begin with. Is it in its original raw uncompressed state? I.e. the raw pixel data which the camera’s photo sensitive chip picked up. Then sure, even just passing it through something like a gzip stream should make it’s size a bit smaller, possibly even to half its size. Think about it. A typical video is going to work on something like RGB values of 24bits each. That means there’s a byte for the intensities of red, blue and green each, and each dot takes up 3 bytes. On HD, that means there’s 1920x1080 dots for each picture the camera takes. So 2073600 pixels times 3 = 6220800 bytes. I.e. just over 6 MB per frame. Times that by how many frames in a second (typically around 30 to 60, though let’s be “generous” and say 30). That means you’d need to download 186 MB per SECOND if the video is uncompressed. And an hour long video would be a grand total of over 600 TB. But that’s a highly unlikely situation. Especially as the sorts of sizes needed for just an hour long HD quality uncompressed movie tends towards multiple terra bytes. And even with the fastest internet connections this isn’t a good idea at all - would take many times longer to download than to play the movie (i.e. streaming is out of the question). No, is you’re downloading or streaming a movie, there is a 100% chance that it has already been compressed. Even just if that file is run through the absolute worst compression system possible (say something like ZIP) it would likely be compressible down to half or even a quarter of that size. But even if that was the case the file would still be several times too large to stream properly. You’d need a minimum of a 1Gbit/sec internet connection between yourself and the server with no-one else on the internet at all. “Stupid” idea. So better compression systems are rather used. The absolute best loss-less compression systems tend to get ratios between 1/100th to 1/10th of the original movie’s size (depending on the content of the movie and how fast the action is). Note it’s possible because video has lots of redundancies and specially designed compressions can work on that fact to reduce the size quite drastically compared to general purpose compressors like ZIP/RAR/7z/etc. which would likely not give much better than a 1/10th or so. Even that is just not yet good enough, we’re still referring to TB instead of the GB you tend to see. So what is used instead? Well, playing on the fact that human sight is rather poor, some of that quality can be thrown away and no-one would notice. In jumps lossy compression. And finally we’re able to get to ratios of around 1/10000th (or better) the original’s size. And those are the things you tend to see from streaming sites such as NetFlix. I.e. quality is lost so minimally that your eyes cannot pick it up, but the size has dropped so drastically that even a mediocre internet connection is enough to stream it in real time. Now you’re asking if it could be compressed after all that. And you’re stipulating it not to loose any quality? The answer is simply. NO!