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by gribbly 8y ago
>We're probably not going to see AV1 implementations on the same level as x264 for at least a few years. True, on that note, over at the Doom9 forums, the x265 spokesperson there said that they will consider making a AV1 encoder sho
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by gribbly 9y ago
>the Amiga 500 was probably the last great value product Commodore ever shipped Agreed, the Amiga 1200 was too little too late, I remember when I first tried programming on the PC coming from Amiga, segmented memory and 16 colors, I thou
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by gribbly 9y ago
Interesting stuff, although not a fan of the lossy recompressing, there are good open source lossless jpeg compressors like packjpg, lepton, giving ~22% compression, and a yet to be released one from the guy who made webp/brotli.
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by gribbly 9y ago
I can understand why someone does not like GPL, but calling a license which says you have to pass on the same rights you were given a 'fascist' license makes absolutely zero sense.
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by gribbly 9y ago
>He was charged with rape and molestation. No, he has never been charged, he is wanted for questioning regarding an accusation of rape. Funny is that he was already questioned for that exact accusation BEFORE he left Sweden, then he was
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by gribbly 9y ago
>That was a headline written by the journalist, and not a statement she actually made. Well, she said the heading wasn't an exact quote, but also not a misrepresentation. From an interview in 2016 she admits that while the headline
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by gribbly 9y ago
Ahh, I had forgotten about that, that was so unexpected to be almost surreal. Also the statement by Ines Uusmann (swedish minister of communications at the time) that 'internet is just a fad' is another 'classic' in swed
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by gribbly 9y ago
>HEVC is actually a standard, and has been for many years. Once the AV1 bitstream is frozen, it will also be a 'standard', only this will be royalty free. >there are Open Sources like x265, and many other commercial solution
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by gribbly 9y ago
But why would they join if they're not going to support (as in use) the codec ? They joined AOM at the highest level, which means they get a seat on the board of directors, I can't see any reason why they would do this unless they
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by gribbly 9y ago
Until the bitstream is frozen, there is basically zero work on optimization.
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by gribbly 9y ago
True, but Netflix is one of the founding members of AV1, which is what they want to replace HEVC with.
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by gribbly 9y ago
They joined AOM as a top level (governing) member, why on earth would they do that unless they are going to support the codec on their software/hardware ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
They won't remove support for HEVC/HEIF for quite some time, but they will support AV1 alongside them, why else would they join AOM at the top level (governing member) ? This means AV1 will be the de facto next generation codec st
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by gribbly 9y ago
>The subject of the article was the "fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs is almost won". To "win" that fight means that content providers can abandon patent protected formats. Eventually they will, the only mis
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by gribbly 9y ago
>In the case of HEVC, which is a joint effort by the ITU and ISO, it’s a straightforward exchange of technology for money. Have you been living in a cave for last year ? HEVC licensing is an absolute mess with at least 3 different entiti
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Is this model better? I don't understand your logic, Facebook/Google is data mining your personal information with or without royalty free codecs. The reason all these companies are banding together to create a royalty free co
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by gribbly 9y ago
>The relevance is that a compiler running in 90's hardware is able to beat Go's compilation speeds of 2017 And beat 99% of other compilers today, meaning that overall compiler complexity has grown. >If you want the 2017 vers
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Turbo Pascal compilation speed, in MS-DOS, using 90’s hardware was already faster than Go. What relevance does this have on the compiler landscape today ? If you have to use a compiler from ~30 years ago to find a comparison supporting
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by gribbly 9y ago
You're welcome, and huge thanks for WebP. PIK had flown under my radar, looks really interesting. Any estimate of when a first release will be out ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
Personally I'm not impressed with the quality of the lossy encoding, it's not enough of a improvement on JPEG to make it worthwhile, for lossless however it's the best format I know of right now, compresses MUCH better than P
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by gribbly 9y ago
Yeah, while I can understand Apple picking up HEVC, this image format makes very little sense to me. Outside of Apple I can't see this have any uptake due to being patent/royalty laden, which means that images you encode using thi
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by gribbly 9y ago
>NixOS & GuixSD provide this. Yes, as a decade+ user of Arch, these two are the only new distros that have made me consider switching, sort of waiting for some spare time (like a free weekend) to give each of them a try.
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by gribbly 9y ago
Why do you think that law hasn't been fixed ...
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by gribbly 9y ago
As I've seen it described here before (by Brendan Gregg ?) Netflix uses FreeBSD for the CDN servers (streaming the video), and Linux for everything else, browsing Netflix, encoding, etc.
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by gribbly 9y ago
That his supposed power is entirely based upon the North Korean military, I see him as nothing but a puppet.
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Kim Jong Un is no fool. Eh, do you actually think Kim Jong has any power in North Korea ? I see him as a pure figurehead, with all power in the hands of top military brass.
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by gribbly 9y ago
Ok, so it's license philosophy rather than any actual license legality problematics, I can understand that.
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by gribbly 9y ago
But you can include Git in the distribution, it's a self-contained program, it's license won't affect anything else it ships alongside with.
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by gribbly 9y ago
Hmmm... in what way does Git being GPL/LGPL cause licence problems for the BSDs ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
Yes I expect this to play out as it usually does, as more evidence is gathered, the story he is telling changes accordingly while he is trying to paint himself as good as possible given the proven circumstances, with a full confession once

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