GeneticGenesis

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by GeneticGenesis 11d ago
Thanks for the nostalgia hit!
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by GeneticGenesis 1mo ago
Yep, spot on - this and some level of inbound filtering are the only reason we use an external platform. That said, with the volume of inbound reports coming from LLMs, the signal-to-noise ratio has plummeted, and the time taken to triage h
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by GeneticGenesis 4mo ago
Congrats to the team at Stainless, it's a great team to be joining over at Anthropic. We were an ealy adopter of their Node SDK generator at Mux (and latterly their Typescript and other generators), and the product worked great, and I&
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by GeneticGenesis 5mo ago
In the interests of transparent disclosure on such a positive blog post, It might be worth calling out that all the links on the page are all linked to the Bunny Affiliate Program. [1] [1] https://bunny.net/affiliate/
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by GeneticGenesis 2y ago
I know it's not public domain per-say, but for me, the thing that's most exciting is that in 2025, the last remaining patents on the h.264 (AVC) video codec will expire [1]. Now if only HEVC wasn't such a hot patent / li
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by GeneticGenesis 2y ago
Disclaimer: We're an early adopter of Stainless at Mux. I've spent more of my time than I'd like to admit managing both OpenAPi spec files [1] and fighting with openapi-generator [2] than any sane person should have to. While
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by GeneticGenesis 4y ago
A more energy efficient dishwasher would be nice though...
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by GeneticGenesis 4y ago
Super interesting, it really depends on what you mean by "choppy". Are you seeing the video re-buffer (a loading spinner re-appearing), or just the video looking stuttery? My video engineer gut tells me that this is a frame rate c
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
Great question! The real answer is it varies, but for H.264, most just encode on software right now, because GPUs are expensive (especially in the cloud), and the failure rates are really high (if you try to build your own). ffmpeg and lib2
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
Hey, I work in the Product team at Mux, and worked on the LL-HLS spec and our implementation, I own our real-time video strategy too. We do offer LL-HLS in an open beta today [1], which in the best case will get you around 4-5 seconds of la
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
We actually built How Video Works as a side project at Mux [1] (inspired by How DNS Works [2]) - there's a note about it at the top of the page. We have contributions from our own team as well as others in the industry. Our main motiva
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
DRM'd video content uses the same video codecs and containers, but introduces segment encryption during the packaging phase. In most cases, this encryption is within the audio and video samples rather than on the entire segment. Most c
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
While HLS isn't the cleanest protocol (Yay for extensions of the M3U playlist format...), it's actually really good at what it's designed to do - provide reliable video streaming while using HTTP/S over variable networks
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Prflxion – A WebRTC IP Leak(blog.peer5.com)
4 points by GeneticGenesis 5y ago|0 comments
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
Do you have a marketing site or landing page for Padka? It sounds interesting, but just linking to a .pkg file on S3 really isn't the way to educate HN users about your offering! Looks like this is the homepage: https://www.
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Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding(techcrunch.com)
30 points by GeneticGenesis 5y ago|5 comments
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
So many permissions, but meanwhile autoplaying video and audio is still hidden behind a horrible heuristic model in Chrome that fundamentally prioritises internet giants like YouTube, Netflix and alike.
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by GeneticGenesis 5y ago
I work in the video streaming industry, and we continue to support TLS 1.1 extensively for a wide range of "smart" TVs and set-top boxes, very frustrating, there was even a long period where large CDNs were trying to shut down 1.1
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
This was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
I don't realistically see this as being a killer feature for most users, but it's super interesting none the less. Sony are saying the bitrate will be "Up to 80Mbps", which is around 3x that of most UHD streaming service
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
This isn't accurate at all. HLML 5 video, MSE etc. have a world of improvements over the mess of FLV / Flash / RTMP streaming. Can you give some examples of what's wrong with HTML5 video streaming and these implementatio
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
Great question. There's a few approaches depending on your target latency. If you need to get below 2 seconds, yes, you'll likely want to use a WebRTC based technology to deliver the video. There's a couple of open source app
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
No worries! While some of the larger UGC platforms do use VP9 for live streaming, it is only for a limited subset of high concurrent viewer streams, and yes, in many cases those aren't running the encodes on commodity hardware. As for
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
Sure, but this was my point, x264 is very fast on commodity hardware, the overwhelming amount of video delivered is still h.264, especially on live video, and in particular for low-viewership, live user generated content. If you want/n
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
Great question, this is a large, complicated topic, but here's a quick overview. For context I've been building live streaming video infrastructure for a little over 10 years now. At a fundamental level, yes, the encoding is one o
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
Great question, it's actually not quite that simple. HTML5 was indeed supposed to bring trivial video to the browser, and it almost did. If you want a good video streaming experience for all your viewers, you need something called Adap
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by GeneticGenesis 6y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that Cloudflare should not be used to deliver video files unless using Cloudflare's "stream" product, IE specifically this [1]. [1]: https://community.c
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Low Latency HTTP Live Streaming Part 2: Judgment Day(mux.com)
4 points by GeneticGenesis 7y ago|1 comments
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by GeneticGenesis 7y ago
I don't really understand why this is being voted up. There's zero documentation on what formats this supports, how to use it in another project etc. It feels a little like a voting ring here to be honest.
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by GeneticGenesis 7y ago
Mozilla's choice to add their own pip button is a massive pain for anyone developing video applications - anywhere over the player can't be considered a safe space to add our own buttons anymore, it really feels like Mozilla didn&

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