ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo
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This repo contains a new way to use bloom filters to do lossless video compression
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-05-26 · latest 2025-05-27
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I'm confused by this line here: https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/4798d90... It seems like this would make the compression lossy and discard, e.g., transitions from #ffffff to #fffffa, and the line above it where the…
comment by hxtk · 2025-05-27 · in Lossless video compression using Bloom filters -
From what I can tell, it also isn't lossless: https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/vi... This looks like it is not storing the diff for any pixel that had the mean of its r,g,b values change by less than 10, which…
comment by hxtk · 2025-05-27 · in Lossless video compression using Bloom filters -
…(at which point you might as well just store the compressed frame instead of the bloom bitmap). https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/4798d90...
comment by Salgat · 2025-05-26 · in Lossless video compression using Bloom filters -
Indeed, as this comparison with gzip shows: https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/co...
comment by croemer · 2025-05-26 · in Lossless video compression using Bloom filters -
…according to your graph [1] this new compression is always strictly worse than just using GZIP? [1] https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/co...
comment by meindnoch · 2025-05-26 · in Lossless video compression using Bloom filters -
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Lossless video compression using Bloom filtersstory by rh3939 · 2025-05-26 · 116 comments