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b, e, g, h are all 1..3 ;)

https://gist.github.com/EriksRemess/62f946bda713da80c7905d1c...

Yeah, you’re totally right, and “red” can also be “blue” of course

I didn’t go into that but I should have mentioned it. There are also multiple resolutions for the videos…! It’s truly 1440 videos times all of the options…!

Have you have been able to decode what the b, e, g and h options mean?

Is there larger resolution than 1080p ?

Someone posted a trailer they found (that has since been removed) with “7000k” in the url, so… maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361

Having looked at it a bit more, I only see "low" and "high" mentioned as qualities. You can replace "high" with "low" in the list of URLs I included (see my gist, posted above) and they seem to work e.g.,

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/lo...

There is an intriguing list in the source code though:

  ["4000k", "5000k", "6000k", "7000k", "8000k", "9000k", "12000k", "15000k"]

which ... could be a list of (pretty extreme) resolutions? Or are these color temperatures?

15k is getting very blue in terms of temperature. Maybe bitrates? Those would also fit.

You've been vindicated, it's definitely bitrate! :-)

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28464228

Looks like there are just two resolutions - "high" 1080p, "low" 720p

h = ["high", "low"]

b, e, g, h are random number from 1 to 3

Math.floor(Math.random() * 3) + 1

edit: b, e, g, h are different segments included. So all unique segments are in these videos:

blue-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i 1f3dbdfd6a7c3d574b6b9eb8d07a3567.mp4

blue-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i 241eb47071c89d8f18b0948763d6389a.mp4

blue-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i 498ec3ba6719291e77b2a8870c744bdf.mp4

red-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i ea2222b8b7a5c72396f76d65cf56890a.mp4

red-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i bac726340f5486d9e02942c243e5b56b.mp4

red-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i ce1aef26388b49562eab495b597e8fbc.mp4

Oh, so you’re saying that there are only 3 unique video segments, but you might get a 1..3 random number for all b, e, g and h arguments…?

So 1440 per-minute videos * 2 pill colors (red/blue) * 3^4 segments (1..3 values for each b, e, g, h argument) * 2 video qualities (high/low)!

3 different segments per key/argument, 4 keys/arguments, 2 colors = only 24 random segments inserted

Sorry do you mean that not all b, g, etc. argument values are possible?

So b1 g2 for example might be possible, but b2 g1 might not exist?

i.e. are values truly random / uniformly distributed?

any combination is possible but, e.g., all blue videos with g3 will have same g segment.

Makes sense, thanks!

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