Comment by woobilicious

4 years ago

YouTube's 1080p60 is already at a decimation ratio of about 200:1, then you have to consider how efficient P and B frames are with motion/differences. if your data looks like noise you're gonna be completely screwed since the P and B frames will absolutely destroy the quality.

There's a bunch of other things too, like YUV420p and TV colour range: 16-235, so you only get 7.7bits / pixel.

If anything you would want to encode your data in some way that abuses the P and B frames, and the macro block size of 16x16.

Coding theory for the data output at your end is only one side of the coin, the VP9 codec stupidly good compression is a completely different game to wrangle.

And I kinda doubt you'll get much better than your estimate of 1% from the original scheme.