Container formats for x.264, AVC, or H.264 are in .mkv or .mp4 codecs to encode and decode.
[1] Technically the term codec refers to a specific program that can encode and decode a certain format.
What you need to know before touching a video file
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Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article simply says "Trust me, just don't."
No it doesn't. It says “don't, Unless you're extremely surgical with it and know exactly what you're doing ”. Which is a sensible piece of advice.
> Don't use Topaz AI, Anime4k, RealESRGAN, RIFE, etc. Trust me, just don't.
Is what the submission says about Topaz and similar.
> Applying any kind of post-processing[4]
Is what the footnote you quoted is linked to.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#143video format world is one where you nope out pretty quick once you realize how many moving pieces there are. ffmpeg seems ridiculously complicated, but infact its amazing the amount of work that happens under the hood when you do ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.webm and tbh theyve made the interface about as smooth as can be given the scope of the problem.
For all the hate Handbrake gets, it does the job of simplifying video encoding enough for casual users while still allowing for plenty of functionality to be leveraged.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
IDK where you have been for the last decade, but Firefox has not been the better option since Chromium was made Disliking Google Chrome proper is one thing, but Chromium is superior in every way. Rendering, features, speed, memory management
-1 tab containers Please elaborate on ”features”. Does chromium have non-google sync?
Chromium based browsers have non-google sync. Vivaldi implements their own encrypted sync service and I believe Brave does as well.
But I am talking about browser feature support, not stuff that can supplemented with an extension like a password manager.
Firefox has poor support for modern web features including video processing and encoding which makes it very bad at web conferencing/video calls or in-page streaming.
Firefox's developer tools and console is also much worse and missing important features.
Other features Firefox is missing or has poor support for compared to Chromium are WebGPU, WebTransport, Periodic Background Sync, and parts of WebRTC. Plus various APIs for web serial, badging, and Web Share are missing partial or full support.
Firefox still doesn't have functional HDR for images and videos including AV1.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#145Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…
MPC-HC is still a thing? I remember installing that (and K-Lite Codec Pack) on Windows, back in the day. Haven't used, or even thought about MPC-HC in years.
It still is, but it's not as recommended over MPV but I'm not as familiar with what it decodes and renders wrong in comparison, but it is still suggested over VLC in Anime circles.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#146Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…
MPC-HC is still a thing? I remember installing that (and K-Lite Codec Pack) on Windows, back in the day. Haven't used, or even thought about MPC-HC in years.
I still use K-Lite Codec Pack on all of my Windows systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#147I'm always amazed when I see how many people are unfamiliar with VLC hate. It was notorious (to the point of it being a popular meme topic) for video artifacts, slow/buggy seeking, bloated/clumsy UI/menus, having very little format support out of the box, and buggy subtitles. I assume nowadays it's much better, since it seems popular, but its reputation will stick with me forever.
| I assume nowadays it's much better...
It's not, but the Linux weenies won't hear of it. Maybe it's a great choice on Linux, but on Windows, it often renders things much worse than stock WMP (both legacy and modern). Videos with a lot of motion play especially poorly.
But, yeah, it opens everything.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#148Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…
I'm also surprised by people's defense of VLC. It's a nice project, especially when it was created, but the bugs I regularly encountered were numerous and in seemingly common use cases.
Here's a post I made 4 years ago describing each bug, shortly before switching to MPV: https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/pm6y1n/too_many_bugs_o...
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#149Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…
> It is the Firefox of media players.
Ironically, my main gripe about Firefox is that it has no support for HDR content and its colour management is disabled by default… and buggy when enabled.
Re: What you need to know before touching a video file
#150Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you probably do not do any serious video encoding or you would know why it sucks today and is well past its prime. VLC is glorified because it was a video player that used to be amazing back in the day, but hasn't been for several years now. I…
It works well enough, and I doubt the majority of VLC users are watching anime with it.