I compressed videos by upto 78x while preserving faces,text and details
Details
- External ID
- 49475565
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I compressed videos by upto 78x while preserving faces,text and details
- Website domain
- figshare.com
- Launched
- Aug. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video editing and creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- video compression preserving faces and text
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Achieving up to 78x video compression while selectively preserving faces, text, and fine details requires novel computer vision, segmentation models, and custom video codec/neural compression research.
What it would actually take: Requires a pipeline combining real-time face/text detection (e.g., YOLO or segmentation models), variable rate allocation, and generative neural video compression (e.g., learned video codecs or NeRF-style representations). Implemented using PyTorch/CUDA and C++ for video decoding/encoding integration with standard container formats. Requires specialized research expertise in video coding algorithms, perceptual loss metrics, and GPU acceleration.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: NPU (Neural Processing Units), GPUs for video processing, Traditional CCTV compression methods
Concerns raised: IP laws preventing adoption of non-patented inventions, Email spamming perception affecting credibility, Lack of replies from major organizations despite initial interest, Cost of official FPGA boards ($250) vs affordable alternatives
Feature requests: Integration with existing GPU-based systems, Mars rover and low-bandwidth video transmission applications, Video-to-text conversion capabilities, Server rack configuration with multiple NonPU devices
Competitors
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Attention rank: #446 of 490 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
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