.TH BLIND-COMPRESS 1 blind
.SH NAME
blind-compress - Compress a video for network transmission
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B blind-compress
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B blind-compress
applies a very fast and simple compression to video.
The output is decompressed by
.BR blind-decompress (1),
and despite a normal head,
.BR blind-decompress (1),
is the only program that can use the output.
.B blind-compress
is designed to reduce the transferred data with
minimal overhead when sending data between computers.
It is recommended to combine
.B blind-compress
with
.BR "lz4 -1" .
.SH REQUIREMENTS
.B blind-compress
requires enough free memory to load two full frames into
memory. A frame requires 32 bytes per pixel it contains.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR blind (7),
.BR blind-decompress (1),
.BR lz4 (1)
.SH AUTHORS
Mattias Andrée
.RI < maandree@kth.se >