Good. Want more people to understand how compression works.
Things like motion estimation, encoding the differences in frames, all that stuff is magic to the uninitiated. :) But this stuff is absolutely worth learning and every engineer should show interest :)
Codecs teach you if the high fidelity of the data you store may not be as important as you'd think it is, and sometimes you'd be able to process all of that with a fraction of the compute power and cost involved.
Things like motion estimation, encoding the differences in frames, all that stuff is magic to the uninitiated. :) But this stuff is absolutely worth learning and every engineer should show interest :)