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I remember when h264 appeared. At that time, I was obsessed with mplayer and would download and build the latest releases on a regular basis. The first time I

I remember when h264 appeared. At that time, I was obsessed with mplayer and would download and build the latest releases on a regular basis. The first time I got an h264 file, mplayer wouldn’t read it so I had to get the dev version and build it. It worked, and I realized two things : the quality was incredible, and my athlon 1800+ couldn’t cope with it. Subsequent mplayer versions ( or libavcodec ?) vastly improved performance, but I still remember that day.

cheema33 2y ago
Yep. Same here. Man, I have not used mplayer in a very long time. But, it was the bee's knees. I used to work for a company that was developing some video based products. And this other company in Vegas sold our bosses a "revolutionary video codec" and a player. We had to sign NDAs to use it. I used it and observed that it worked like mplayer. Too much like it. 5 more minutes of investigation and the jig was up. Our execs who paid a lot of money to the Vegas company had an egg on their face. It is shockingly easy to scam non-tech decisions makers in the tech field. They are too worried about being left behind. Smart ones will pull in a "good" engineer for evaluation. Dunning Kruger subjects will line up with their wallets out.