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jbk
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About jbk
Video startup founder
One of the VLC lead developers
jb -at- videolan.org http://www.jbkempf.com/ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jbkempf
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jbk; my proof: https://keybase.io/jbk/sigs/qDODqvlBWPF_96drobDfP-m8PVJNC71Ts7yXzpaDu_c ]
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Comment #49168427
For those interested in the work being done, with a bit more details that just the Changelog, I wrote a longer blogpost about the work here: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/ffmpeg-9.…
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Comment #48972955
Read the list of patents left: a lot of them are on SVC (no one uses this) and on higher profile. For a lot of use cases, including Basic and Main profile, H.264 is already free.
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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-lapt... https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2026/05/31/introducing-sur...
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Comment #48345344
> AV1 software decoding is already very intensive so AV2 decoding benchmarks are the next thing that would be really interesting (or mortifying) to see. Yes, this is going to be fu…
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Comment #48345338
Because it's 5 times more complex, you need to get the maximum performance available. Therefore more ASM than ever. Rust does not bring more performance. Just more safety.
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Comment #48345332
> I'm not sure what these two lines mean or if we can compare them, any help? AV2 saves 25% bandwidth at the cost of 5x more decoding complexity.
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Comment #48343798
It was difficult to find a nice name, with av2 :( It works in French d2vid (Deuvid)
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Comment #48163227
So you can scrobble and it gets you new music? But so, how can you listen to that new music?
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Comment #47996613
No, since the format is not final.
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Comment #47750465
This is amazing. I started doing the same, but I did not have the time to polish it. Questions: why no X? Do you have a feature to resize (summarize?) to the text to fit into short…
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Comment #46873883
Kyber | Low-level Developers and Sales | Paris area (hybrid) and Remote in Europe | Full-time | kyber.media Kyber is an open-source SDK and platform to control remote machines, fro…
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Comment #46466619
Kyber | Low-level Developers | Paris area (hybrid) and Remote in Europe | Full-time | kyber.media Kyber is an open-source SDK and platform to control remote machines, from Remote D…
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Comment #46334983
How so?
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Comment #44217895
> Can't imagine any valid reason for that... Depends of your paranoia level: either because laziness or because of evil intentions...
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Comment #44217888
> But who needs debugging right? ;) Debugging and testing is just for the non-believers.
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Comment #44217883
Unless they use Android TV, for example: See https://dev.to/npomepuy/vlc-for-android-updates-on-the-play-...
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Comment #44217877
> Since when do you have to hand over your signing keys to Google? Since it requires App Bundles, which is mandatory, as soon as you have Android TV support, for example. https://a…
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Comment #44217870
> I haven't and I don't think it is required. It is required, as soon as you have Android TV support, for example. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/11/app-bundle... S…
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Comment #44215232
And all this article is "just" about the building of the Java/Kotlin application :) Native NDK is another can of worms, with updates linked to SDK or sometimes not, unclear documen…