Professor Assigns Pure-C Video Storage Challenge: No Libraries, 60s at 60fps
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-10-25
@cneuralnetwork shares a side project assigned by their professor: efficiently store a 60-second, 60fps video using only C, with no libraries allowed. The author notes it became their first viral post.
Such no-library assignments force you to build codecs and data structures from scratch, circulating in the AI community as a hardcore coding flex.
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