Compress video to fit on 1.44MB floppy?

[WhitetailAni]

Picking up an old quest to put the first Pewds video I ever watched on a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk (LWIAY).
Yes, I know it is on the LTT and Tom's Hardware forum already. Ignore those.
it's the Cool Cat Cringe Tuesdays video. Don't ask, because I don't know.
I have managed to get it to 4.8MB with a 64x48 resolution and fish tank audio.
Any advice/ideas?
I can attach the base file and my current progress if you would like.

 

[sam_86314]

Try a better video codec like H265 and make the audio as low quality and mono as possible.

 

[WhitetailAni]

I forgot it was still on stereo. Oops!
And I will try h.265.

 

[wiak]

use opus at its lowest setting with mono and voice, av1 can also make it small, it also depends on the length of the video

 

[Keullo-e]

Heh, reminds me when I browsed through my mp3s to find some to put on a diskette (one track per diskette). Kinda fun to see how it seeks from time to time as it loads to buffer.

 

[wiak]

Heh, reminds me when I browsed through my mp3s to find some to put on a diskette (one track per diskette). Kinda fun to see how it seeks from time to time as it loads to buffer.

 

[johnspack]

Poor little floppy drives. I had so much fun with them. One computer in college only had 2 5 1/4 floppy drives, you had to boot dos from one and then
run the app from the other. Later on I'd use special formatting utils to get 1.8ish mbs out of a 1.44mb 3.5" floppy. Could do so much with floppies back then....

 

[Athlonite]

Later on I'd use special formatting utils to get 1.8ish mbs out of a 1.44mb 3.5" floppy

That's something MS used to do with their floppies always the first disk was 1.88MB and the rest were standard 1.44MB especially their 98 enhancement pack

 

[dorsetknob]

Best 3 1/2" Floppy for Capacity was the LS120 pity CD/RW killed the idea and yeh still got a Drive and 5 LS120 Disks
It works over a IDE Docking Station

 

[Chomiq]

Heh, reminds me when I browsed through my mp3s to find some to put on a diskette (one track per diskette). Kinda fun to see how it seeks from time to time as it loads to buffer.

I used to zip them and put them on multiple floppies. Oh the horror when CRC check failed.

 

[SomeOne99h]

I used to zip them and put them on multiple floppies. Oh the horror when CRC check failed.

You call that horror? When of my pals in university back in those days, was supposed to handle his assignment to the professor, when he tried to open the floppy, the file is gone. How and why? we don't know. And he didn't bother to save the file first in his computer. He saved it directly into the floppy .....

 

[sam_86314]

Bit of a necrobump, I know, but it's relevant to the topic.

Someone crammed a 4-minute LGR video onto a 3.5" floppy, and LGR himself featured it in a video today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LGR/comments/lq0z51
Modern video compression is truly incredible.

 

[delshay]

I have which must be super rare Amiga External floppy drive with built-in track counter. I can dig it out & post photo if I get enough request,

 

[Regeneration]

Resize to 320x240, use 2.88MB floppy, or use several diskettes.

 

[dorsetknob]

Resize to 320x240, use 2.88MB floppy, or use several diskettes.

Or just use LS120

 

[qubit]

I have which must be super rare Amiga External floppy drive with built-in track counter. I can dig it out & post photo if I get enough request,

I'd like to see it, please. I've got a bunch of friends who are Amiga enthusiasts.

 

[delshay]

I'd like to see it, please. I've got a bunch of friends who are Amiga enthusiasts.

OK. It won't be long as I'm testing something (with-in one day). If I remember correctly, It's made by "Golden Image".., I also have the rare 3 button optical mouse made by the same company, for amiga.

 

[Faux_Grey]

This guy on reddit called GreedyPaint made a codec to compress the original shrek movie to fit on a 1.44 which I thought was impressive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/kkzpuk

 

[Hardcore Games]

USB sticks are cheaper than floppy disks and hold more

 

[Toothless]

USB sticks are cheaper than floppy disks and hold more

Good thing that's not the point of the thread.

 

[WhitetailAni]

USB sticks are cheaper than floppy disks and hold more

I know that.
I have a whole bunch of varying sizes - 867MB, 1GB, 2GB, 8GB.
But that's not what I'm asking.

 

[Hardcore Games]

i divested of floppies so long ago its Unreal

UNREAL

Unreal was released on April 30, 1998 by GT Interactive. The game was developed by Epic Games. Unreal is a first person shooter. The player takes on the role of prisoner 849. The transport crashes on an unknown planet. The ship ended up on the lip of a canyon on the planet Na Pali, home of ...

www.hardcoregames.ca

 

[hat]

Err, what does that have to do with floppies, again?

 

[Mussels]

Stay on topic please


it's a weird topic, but lets stay on it

 

[Mescalamba]

IMHO, this would need some codec that can basically re-create image with some help of machine learning. We not there yet.

Or you can go h.265 way with very low FPS + very low res+ as big GOP as you can + adaptive quantization near max (before it breaks image).

VHS of old actually had rather decent capacity, if you would convert it to "data". Probably reason why magnetic tapes are still a thing today. While 1.44 floppy aint.