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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Technically, all video is a series of updating stills.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True, but most streaming media now is a bunch of stills with the changes for each individual frame between them.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

True, but webcams still just deliver raw frames (or compressed frames in the case of MJPEG).