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Tip for those who are looking at the compression ratios thinking "so what?": look at the run-times. It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries.
According to the author, right? Those results aren't backed up by Porcus's comments in that thread.
> Though it is fast indeed! The decoding speeds are outright impressive given how FLAC is the fastest thing we ever saw ...
I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year.
I struggle to see an upside to withholding source code in a world awash with performant open source media codecs.
Tip for those who are looking at the compression ratios thinking "so what?": look at the run-times. It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries.
>It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries. Ok, but what would make that useful?
Lower run-time means less electricity and less tying up of the CPU, making it available for other things. As a real-life example: i frequently use my Raspberry Pi 4 to convert videos from one format to another. This past week i got a Pi 5 and moved the conversion to that machine: it takes maybe 1/4th as much time. The principle with a faster converter, as opposed to faster hardware, is the same: the computer isn't tied up for as long, and not draining as much power.
For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actually does? References to relevant publications? All I see are two mystery Windows binaries, hosted on a forum I've never heard about. The fact that "encode.su" uses the world's most notorious d…
And later, you will learn to understand the depth of the contribution that the ffmpeg project provides :)
For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actually does? References to relevant publications? All I see are two mystery Windows binaries, hosted on a forum I've never heard about. The fact that "encode.su" uses the world's most notorious d…
I've searched the web and found not a single mention of "high availability" in the context of audio codecs. In fact, the top-ranked result was this very post, which doesn't explain what the term is intended to mean.
Tip for those who are looking at the compression ratios thinking "so what?": look at the run-times. It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries.
In realtime applications, any processor within the last decade is far more than powerful enough to encode and decode in realtime. The first set of tracks in the results is 2862s long and even the slowest WAVPACK manages to encode it in >113x realtime and close to 250x realtime for decode.
For archival, high compression is important, but this codec doesn't compress better than WAVPACK either.
For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actually does? References to relevant publications? All I see are two mystery Windows binaries, hosted on a forum I've never heard about. The fact that "encode.su" uses the world's most notorious d…
The leaders in data compression and information theory are all from the former Soviet Union, so that's no cause for concern.
I think Andrey Markov started it all.
For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actually does? References to relevant publications? All I see are two mystery Windows binaries, hosted on a forum I've never heard about. The fact that "encode.su" uses the world's most notorious d…
Hydrogenaudio is well known in this area and many new prototype codecs are announced there first. Also, the lack of source control and Windows-only binaries are very much congruent to the style of development there. See it as your confrontation with a new world, because small it is not! And later, you will learn to understand the depth of the contribution that the ffmpeg project provides :)
New world indeed...
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>It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries. Ok, but what would make that useful?
> Ok, but what would make that useful? Lower run-time means less electricity and less tying up of the CPU, making it available for other things. As a real-life example: i frequently use my Raspberry Pi 4 to convert videos from one format to another. This past week i got a Pi 5 and moved the conversion to that machine: it takes maybe 1/4th as much time. The principle with a faster converter, as opposed to faster hardw…