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some early implementations of mpeg-1 compressors only supported I frames. amusingly, this is still a valid mpeg-1 bitstream.


Not particularly strange, a lot of compression formats work like that. E.g. you can make a zip file at STORE level and there will be no actual compression.


You can do the same with a modern encoder too by setting the keyframe interval to 1 and "amusingly" the bitstream is still valid.




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