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>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 s…

>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 …

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 b…

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.…

>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 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 i…

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 …

>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 l…

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…

Until the bitstream is frozen, there is basically zero work on optimization.

True, but Netflix is one of the founding members of AV1, which is what they want to replace HEVC with.

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 ?

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…

>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 format…

>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 licen…

>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 a…

>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 comp…

>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 com…

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 ?

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 kno…

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 l…

>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 f…

Why do you think that law hasn't been fixed ...

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…

That his supposed power is entirely based upon the North Korean military, I see him as nothing but a puppet.