Optimization processes for compressing media content

A method comprising:

• receiving, in an media content management system, an uncompressed content item comprising a plurality of frames;
• determining data representing a color map associated with the plurality of frames of the uncompressed content item;
• generating, by a processor for each frame of the plurality of frames, a plurality of color values associated with a plurality of pixels of the each frame;
• comparing, by the processor for each pixel in each frame of the plurality of frames, a subset of the plurality of color values to determine a color difference value;
• determining data representing a new color map associated with the plurality of frames based on the color difference value associated with each pixel in each frame;
• and
• storing the data representing the new color map in association with the uncompressed content item to form a compressed content item in a database in the media content management system.

A system comprising:

• a server configured to receive an uncompressed content item comprising a plurality of frames;
• a preprocessing module configured to determine data representing a color map associated with the plurality of frames of the uncompressed content item, generate a plurality of color values associated with a plurality of pixels in the plurality of frames, and the preprocessing module further configured to determine data representing a new color map based on a plurality of color difference values using the plurality of color values;
• a processor configured to determine one or more parameters associated with the uncompressed content item, to generate a plurality of variants of the uncompressed content item using the one or more parameters, the plurality of variants including one or more compressed content items, to determine a candidate set comprising at least one of the one or more compressed content items based on one or more filtering factors, and the processor further configured to select a validated compressed content item from the candidate set based on one or more validation criteria;
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• a database configured to store, by the processor, the validated compressed content item and the data representing the new color map in association with the uncompressed content item.