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makira on Nov 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A web video company that is most likely a hoax

It means the _normal.mp4 file was encoded in an absurdly high bitrate for no reason except to make their claim of 90% compression.

jc4p on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

You hit the nail on the head here. While it's possible that the video they posted is 6fps (which is close to what those mencoder flags will achieve), it's more likely that they simply saved the first video with no compression and saved the second one as a regular video file with compression.

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