GoKawiilClassic explainer breaks down why H.264 video compresses so efficiently
A technical blog post revisits H.264, the video codec used across internet streaming, Blu-ray discs, phones, drones and security cameras, explaining the engineering behind its compression. The author demonstrates that a 300-frame H.264 clip of the Apple homepage is far smaller than a single uncompressed PNG frame from that same clip, then walks through the techniques—built on more than three decades of development—that make such dramatic bandwidth savings possible.