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Description: Compression Resource
If one type of website benefits from data compression the most, then it’s websites that stream videos to many users. Chick Tok is one of these sites. Thousands of users upload and view videos from their site every day, and by fine tuning their use of compression, they’re able to save thousands of dollars every day.
While there are a few different ways that you can compress your video files so that they take up less space on your hard drive, or store them faster in the cloud, the method that ChickTok uses to do this is called “variable bitrate.” This method of compressing allows you to change how much data each individual frame contains based on what the user wants to see at any given time.
This means that instead of having all the frames for an entire scene stored as one large file, you would have a bunch of small files which contain only the parts of the file that need to be displayed at any point during playback. This not only saves space on your server, but it also speeds up the load times of your videos.
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