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Analytic number theory exists and involves calculus, but it's not what the linked post is about. The article talks about Hensel's lemma, which is a purely algebraic statement with …

A lot of the pain of GitHub Actions gets much better using tools like action-tmate: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate As soon as I need more than two tries to get some work…

The core idea of YCbCr - decoupling chrominance and luminance information - definitely has merit, but the fact that we are still using YCbCr specifically is definitely for historic…

This may just be because mpv has higher-quality default settings for scaling and tonemapping. Try mpv with profile=fast, maybe. To properly compare mpv's and VLC's performance you'…

Thanks for bringing this up, since I'm realizing that I did not explicitly spell this out in the post. I'll add a paragraph making this even clearer.

Thanks for the "encoder/decoder" correction. But yes, as the other reply says, I am aware of this distinction, and I make a point not to use the word "codec" at any other point in …

libav{format,codec,...} are just libraries for demuxing and decoding video. There is huge variability in how those libraries are used, let alone how the video is displayed (which n…

One difference I can immediately point to is that VLC always renders subtitles at the video's storage resolution and then up/downscales all bitmaps returned by libass individually …

Note that, while I haven't had time to investigate them myself yet, IINA is known to have problems with color spaces (and also uses libmpv, which is quite limited at the moment and…

Original post author here. It seems like the main criticisms I am getting for this article are because it's escaped past its main target audience, so let me clarify a few things. T…

HDR is nothing more than metadata about the color spaces. The way the underlying pixel data is encoded does not change. HDR consists of 1. A larger color space, allowing for more c…

ogg is a container format, not a coding format.

Admittedly I have not, but I did search for and find similar issues on their github before making this comment, and I do plan to investigate this more one day and possibly make a p…

IINA has various issues that mpv does not have, in particular with color space conversions (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278331 for a few more details)

IINA has issues with color space conversions. I've heard that the specific issue is that it always (incorrectly) assumes a BT601 matrix for all videos, though I haven't verified it…