honsa / schillsaver

A program that encodes files from their native formats into a video of black and white blocks, which represent the bits of the source file.

Schillsaver allows you to encode one or more files, from their native formats, into a single video. This video is comprised of black/white blocks that represent the bits of the input file(s).

The resulting video can be uploaded to a hosting site, such as YouTube, where it can then be re-downloaded in the future and decoded back into the original file. This allows for free file storage.

This program was written as a proof-of-concept, and I am not recommending that you utilize YouTube for free file storage. However, what you do with this program is up to you.

Requirements

• Java 11 or higher.
• The FFMPEG executable for your system.
• The Schillsaver JAR file

Misc. Notes

• For a decode to work successfully, you must use the same block size setting and codec that you encoded with, the other settings don't matter.

  So, if you've encoded a video with block size 8 and libx264, then it has to be decoded with block size 8 and libx264. Any other size will result in a corrupt decode.

• To run the program on Linux, you may need launch the program using the java -jar Schillsaver.jar command.

• YouTube does not support 60 FPS for videos below 720p.

• When downloading your stored videos from YouTube, or whatever other service you use, ensure that you download the video at the same resolution that you encoded the video at.

  If you've encoded a 1080p video, then download it as 720p and try to decode the video, you'll get a corrupt decode.