--- title: Video encoded as emojis⁉️ Stored in a DB? 😱🤯 | daily.dev description: The post explores the concept of converting a video into emojis, storing them in a database, and serving them as an image. It discusses the process of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/video-encoded-as-emojis-stored-in-a-db--xqxuiiucl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Video encoded as emojis⁉️ Stored in a DB? 😱🤯 | daily.dev og:description: The post explores the concept of converting a video into emojis, storing them in a database, and serving them as an image. It discusses the process of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/video-encoded-as-emojis-stored-in-a-db--xqxuiiucl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XQxUIIuCl.png og:image:alt: Video encoded as emojis⁉️ Stored in a DB? 😱🤯 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Video encoded as emojis⁉️ Stored in a DB? 😱🤯 **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@graham623](https://daily.dev/graham623) · 9 min read · 23 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The post explores the concept of converting a video into emojis, storing them in a database, and serving them as an image. It discusses the process of converting and storing pixel data, removing black bars, and encoding the data using a limited set of emojis. The author also explains how to retrieve the emojis from the database and showcases a demo of the concept. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@efekos** · 0 upvotes > No way I just got rickrolled by an article ☠️ --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#supabase](https://daily.dev/tags/supabase) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/video-encoded-as-emojis-stored-in-a-db--xqxuiiucl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Video encoded as emojis⁉️ Stored in a DB? 😱🤯","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/video-encoded-as-emojis-stored-in-a-db--xqxuiiucl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/video-encoded-as-emojis-stored-in-a-db--xqxuiiucl"},"datePublished":"2024-04-26T09:38:58.570Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T10:44:00.609Z","description":"The post explores the concept of converting a video into emojis, storing them in a database, and serving them as an image. 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