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They switched their AV1 decoder from libaom to dav1d.

Version freezing attack can be done even if the client tries to connect over TLS, simply by dropping SYN requests to the update server, or by DNS manipulation, etc.

They have a network of voluntary mirrors using very different stacks that give them storage and bandwidth for free. Similar to Debian's APT [0]. VideoLAN isn't in a position to enf…

The BitTorrent protocol uses UDP only when using a congestion control mechanism on top of it (uTP). In fact uTP is aware when the send buffer is filled and when latency is introduc…

It's on the roadmap for VLC 4.0, the new medialibrary (C++11) is in the process of being added as a module. The interface is also being reworked in QML. This medialibrary is alread…

SSH is a cryptographic network protocol that doesn't use SSL/TLS.

Netflix and Amazon also already encode in HEVC, they stream it to compatible players/hardware

Furthermore webm/Matroska AV1 mapping isn't finalized, same situation with MP4.

x264 is an AVC encoding software by VideoLAN.

There is Orgzly, but it's not very practical.

> help serve those videos from their home connection While it's what we usually do when we uses BitTorrent and similar protocols, this is ignoring network topology, and somewhat in…

Everyone involved in any innovation cycle depends on academic research one way or another. That's especially true in the field of Information Technology. The 'success' that people …

Until someone actually do it, and better. Good luck monetize your proprietary alternative then!

Libre software and the open source spirit existed long before Internet. Sure, It was really hard to find projects and contribute to them, but we can do it since the dawn of compute…

That's forgetting the push for EME as a W3C standard.

Path tracing in general do not technically terminate since it's trying to approach an integral (the rendering equation) with sums. It's up to the user to determine the sample per p…

Indeed! This implementation was started by some people working on AV1 to test libaom's specification implementation correctness. There was a presentation about it at VDD17, if I re…

The base was VP10 + tools from Thor (Cisco) and Daala (Xiph.Org/Mozilla), and it evolved from there to AV1 through a process of "experiments", test, IP checks and then its enableme…

No, but it has been added to VLC git master (cf. changelog [1]) as an experimental feature using libaom. [1] https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=H...

VideoLAN's president, jbkempf, was considering finding manpower to build an AV1 implementation a couple months ago. Not sure of the status now.