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>Any compression would ruin that.

Well not really. You could have an entire frame as a solid color red to represent a '1' and a solid white frame to represent a '0'. At 24 fps, that is 3 bytes per second and would certainly survive compression. Just keep drilling down, half a frame that is red and another half that is white would represent a '10' pair, now you've doubled your throughput. You could keep cutting these blocks down until you get to a limit, you certainly couldn't get down to a single pixel, but some factor of that. Plus you could use an encoding with error correction instead of just raw binary data.



Sounds like you'll end up with a couple of qr codes per frame in the end, which would probably survive compression




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