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Simon Willison created a web-based video compression tool using Claude Fable 5.1 and FFMPEG WebAssembly to quickly generate optimized video files with customizable presets for blog publishing.
The author compressed the Bad Apple animation into a small MLP with sine activations (SIREN), using only 790k parameters (~3MB) to represent 2.7 billion pixels, with improvements like time-stretching and motion-focused sampling reducing validation MSE by ~9x.
MLVC is a hardware-robust neural video codec designed for practical cross-platform deployment. It surpasses hardware HEVC by over 70% BD-rate (MOS) on video conferencing while running at 100 FPS on commodity NPUs from Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm.
MediaOptim is a tool that compresses images, video, and audio locally to save storage without uploading files.