Why do things like confetti ruin the birate of videos and livestreams?
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Videos aren’t served to you in their original format.
They’re run through what’s called a codec. What that does is it tries to find all the sneaky ways it can save space in typical videos.
In typical videos, things don’t move around and change color much, so that’s where they focus – on the stuff that does change.
However, they have limited space/second for storage. So they try to do the most they can in their budget.
The issue is that stuff like confetti moves fast and changes shape, color, speed, and direction unpredictably.
What ends up happening is that only some of the detail in the video can be retained while staying in budget. Lots of changes between frames means that the budget gets spread really thin, resulting in that glitchy and blurry mess that comes with videos of confetti.
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