der_rod

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by der_rod 2y ago
> They didn't modify anything other than the build, to exclude certain dependencies. To be clear here: They do modify it further than that by applying a number of patches. For example, they replace libx264 with OpenH264 which also r
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by der_rod 2y ago
Unfortunately, some of the most popular/problematic software (default Windows video player and explorer) does not support `sidx` boxes.
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by der_rod 2y ago
The mdat box does not have a defined structure, and the specification actually states that attempting to define a structure is almost certainly a mistake. In order to find the data the player is looking for it has to read the moov box, whic
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by der_rod 2y ago
A hah, that sounds cool, looking forward to the writeup!
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by der_rod 2y ago
> Having recently written my own fragmented-MP4 remuxing library, I felt this pain too, and my soon-to-be-published writeup has very similar things to say about the ISO's paywalling practices. Would be curious to hear what goals you
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by der_rod 3y ago
> Also am I stupid for buying a switch instead of emulating it? No, while the emulation is pretty good, it's not perfect, and new titles won't always run out of the box. And things like online multiplayer naturally don't w
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by der_rod 3y ago
> You just need to set up servers that are ready The "just" is doing a lot of work here. Extending existing RTMP infrastructure is obviously much easier than spinning up an entirely different one. And you'd still have spec
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by der_rod 3y ago
1. Yes, it's an extension to the spec published by an organisation Adobe and Google are a part of. It extends the protocol in a backwards-compatible way. 2. SRT, in practice, is only ever used with MPEG-TS as the container for audio&#x
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by der_rod 3y ago
Doesn't support AV1.
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by der_rod 3y ago
Well there just isn't "something better". Yet. MoQ (Media over QUIC) development is underway at the IETF - with involvement from Twitch/YouTube/Facebook/Cisco/etc. - but will probably still take quite some
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by der_rod 4y ago
Why they chose that example I can only speculate, perhaps it was the first name they recognised and just used as an example because they were familiar with it? I just really didn't like the assertion that this was supposed to be some s
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by der_rod 4y ago
You have to take the quote in context: > However, Germany ends up taking the prize for most Minecraft servers per capita, with a whopping four servers for every 10,000 people. This is probably thanks to cheap hosting offerings from compa