ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Dirac (video compression format)

Okay kiddo, let me explain Dirac to you in a way that even a 5-year-old can understand.

Dirac is a type of video compression format. That means it helps to make videos take up less space on your device, while still looking good.

Imagine you have a big toy box with lots of toys inside. It takes up a lot of space in your room. But if you take out some of the toys and put them in a smaller box, you can save some space in your room.

That's kind of what Dirac does to videos. It takes out some of the unnecessary parts of the video and puts it into a smaller file. So when you play the video on your device, it doesn't take up as much space and doesn't use up as much of your device's resources.

But just like when you take out toys that you might want to play with later, Dirac tries to take out as little as possible from the video to make sure it still looks good. It does this by using a complicated mathematical equation that figures out which parts of the video are most important and which parts can be taken out without affecting the quality too much.

So, that's Dirac! A magical tool that makes videos take up less space without sacrificing their quality.