Saving a full movie on a simple floppy disk is a fun gamble a developer takes on. He achieves his goal. He posted a video on Reddit as proof of the success of his crazy project. Make yourself comfortable, Shrek movie will start soon.

Tired of watching 4K movies while enjoying Dolby Atmos or DTS sound? Want to go back to the bad old quality movies recorded on VHS? A Reddit user may have a solution for you. Better than the old VHS tape, He was able to record the movie Shrek on a simple floppy diskAn approach that therefore offers more than just intimidating video quality.

So developer U / GridPaint had the weird idea of ​​wanting to record a full movie on a small floppy disk, as seen on computers in the 80s and 90s. Suspicious media can be stored 1.44 MB of data, Or if we increase the number of tracks and sectors while formatting the floppy disk. Comparatively, This capacity represents only 0.03% of the storage space of a DVD Single layer 4.7 GB.

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Shrek Movie now fits on a 1.44MB floppy disk

In this case, u / GreedyPaint relied on the personalized version of the x265 video codec. He was able to reduce the size of the image to a resolution of 120 x 96 pixels and a speed of 4 frames per second. Shrek In vain 1.37 m. The floppy disk finally reads on a small device with the Raspberry Pi. The movie starts as soon as it is swallowed by the reader. No play button, pause, fast transfer …

The Limatech Diskmaster (That’s the name of the device) Video plays from A to Z, that’s all. As you can see in the short video below, the image is of poor quality and the video is extremely low (4 frames per second!). Only the audio reconstruction remains correct.

The effort is laughable but one can only appreciate such an achievement. u / GreedyPaint is currently being planned and is not doing this with non-standard projectsRecord the full movie on a vinyl record. An approach reminiscent of this other successful developer Start your PC under DOS on the same recording medium.