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I stumbled upon that new use of mp4 format. Interesting.

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[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So they use the MP4 container like a zip file and this is revolutionary? I mean, it's a nice stunt, but the developer seems pretty serious about it. What am I misunderstanding?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Kinda but more like a db (ie you can search it) so instead of spinning a db for your ai you could have that store in that type of container …

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

So like indexed text files? I don't understand what's the benefit of encoding text into videos.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 3 hours ago

but there's sqlite for that. how is this more?