Comment by BEEdwards
10 years ago
"This post will give insight into some of the details at a high level - I hope to not bore you too much with the intricacies."
Did you miss the third paragraph?
As someone who knew nothing about it before, I found it lived up to it's goal.
I think they just mean it shouldn't be "H.264 is magic", it should just be "video compression is magic" or some such. That irked me a little bit too.