Hello, Video Codec! — Build an Intra-Only Codec in ~100 Lines of Rust

Tutorial building a working intra-only video codec with intra prediction and Rice/Golomb residual coding in about 100 lines of Rust, outperforming pngcrush on a 4K frame.

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