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etix

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About etix

VLC developer, in charge of VLC distribution infrastructure and ex-VideoLAN treasurer, co-founder and CTO of a French start-up. I love doing stuff in Go, playing with my Arduino/Teensy/ESP boards and putting everything into Docker.

  Twitter: @etixxx and @videolan
  Ohloh: https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/etix
  Blog: http://blog.l0cal.com
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/etix; my proof: https://keybase.io/etix/sigs/GfI4H0D4eUp2ufjoPc3zDoiJ2Vqbg513PPmKRsNxnV4 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20002267

    I don't think Facebook can survive ten more years without deep changes. Facebook needs your data to survive but they don't bring much value to their users anymore, some people are …

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    Comment #18077640

    What a sad news. I was expecting more servers in EU in a near future and maybe an option to select the location of our primary DC (US or EU). I've been a happy customer since 2013 …

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    Comment #16342466

    Passthrough will work.

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    Comment #16342262

    DCP support is there too :)

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    Comment #16341977

    Thanks for your support!

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    Comment #16341827

    Have a look here: https://twitter.com/robUx4/status/962006436174708736

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    Comment #16341791

    Yes, all platforms!

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    Comment #16341597

    We are exploring some ways but we have nothing to announce yet.

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    Comment #16341386

    AFAIK we didn't do an actual benchmark but when doing software decoding/encoding there should be small improvements here and there.

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    Comment #16341294

    We do? Such wow.

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    Comment #16341278

    Give it another try, who knows.

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    Comment #16341267

    We had to redesign a new kind of module called a renderer that has some weird capabilities and of course the Chromecast being kind of undocumented didn't help.

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    Comment #16341029

    It's been years that this option is available on Android. Look for the lock icon in the overlay.

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    Comment #16341015

    Absolutely. You can play any Twitch stream from VLC and cast it on your TV.

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    Comment #16340989

    Auto updates are never enabled right after a release in case of critial regression. We usually wait for a week before starting the rollout.

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    Comment #16340948

    Yes, we had a last minute issue with the 64-bit builds, they will be available in a few hours.

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    Comment #16340933

    Chromecast support took much more time to implement than we originally expected, that was probably the major reason for the delay.

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    Comment #15932352

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #15932208

    It might solve the scalability issue but definitely not the privacy issue.

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    Comment #15857366

    The use of the cryptonight-light algorithm. Requires half the power to achieve the same hash rate.

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    Comment #14702397

    > It's like devices are not even planned to be repaired. They are designed to be sold and then abandoned. That's the real issue. Not cost of repair. Absolutely. Smartphones are the…

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    Comment #14702365

    Extending the minimum warranty can help to make more durable products.

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