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Re: Dav2d

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Post by Lerc »

Almondsetat wrote: post #17
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw. It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channels on broadcast TV right now - and it's on the front-page of Reddit for me as well.

So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?

Just that remember that there were people that said calling the second LOTR movie The Two Towers was disrespectful.

Re: Dav2d

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Post by tux3 »

Zopieux wrote: post #7

>video decoder implementation > look inside >it's C

Not just C, dav1d and dav2d are actually mostly written in ASM! Then there's a bit of C as the glue or for functions that don't have optimized ASM yet.

Since dav2d is newer it has a higher fraction of C, but not enough for it to be the main language in the codebase :)

Re: Dav2d

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Post by amusingimpala75 »

honktime wrote: post #12
port11 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.

Its pretty explicitly not a tragedy of the commons. Its a tragedy of the ruling class abusing the resources of the 'commons' to extract value. There is nothing 'commons' about trillion dollar companies extracting all available value from the labor of the working class. That's just the tragedy that'll bring around the death of society, the same tragedy that brings all other tragedys

Thank you for describing the tragedy of the commons

Re: Dav2d

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Post by delfinom »

jzebedee wrote: post #2

Project description: dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast. If you're out of the loop like me: AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates.…

looks at if AV2 is dead in the water

https://www.sisvel.com/insights/av2-is-coming-sisvel-is-prep...

yep

Re: Dav2d

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Post by walrus01 »

delfinom wrote: post #25
jzebedee wrote: post #2

Project description: dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast. If you're out of the loop like me: AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates.…

looks at if AV2 is dead in the water https://www.sisvel.com/insights/av2-is-coming-sisvel-is-prep... yep

Sisvel is a patent troll. Take a look at the combined list of all companies that are the AOM and tell me with a straight face that all of their corporate in house counsel specializing in intellectual property law are wrong.

Re: Dav2d

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Post by throw-the-towel »

honktime wrote: post #12
port11 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.

Its pretty explicitly not a tragedy of the commons. Its a tragedy of the ruling class abusing the resources of the 'commons' to extract value. There is nothing 'commons' about trillion dollar companies extracting all available value from the labor of the working class. That's just the tragedy that'll bring around the death of society, the same tragedy that brings all other tragedys

The commons in question is the internet itself.

Re: Dav2d

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Post by fguerraz »

dcsommer wrote: post #18

We must not continue to develop media codecs in memory unsafe languages. Small, auditable sections can opt-out perhaps, but choosing default-unsafe for this type of software is close to professional negligence.

Cryptography and video codecs are notable exceptions, they put a lot of effort to making the code provably memory safe: no recursion, limited use of stack variables, no dynamic allocations, etc. As a result, memory safe languages bring nothing but trouble by making it non deterministic, that’s especially true for crypto where compiler “optimisations” guarantee you side channels attacks.

Re: Dav2d

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Post by Telaneo »

delfinom wrote: post #25
jzebedee wrote: post #2

Project description: dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast. If you're out of the loop like me: AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates.…

looks at if AV2 is dead in the water https://www.sisvel.com/insights/av2-is-coming-sisvel-is-prep... yep

They've done the same thing with AV1, and I can't see that having prevented adoption, nor can I imagine Sisvel wanting to poke the bear that is AOMedia unless they're certain their case is absolutely watertight.

Re: Dav2d

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Post by dyauspitr »

honktime wrote: post #12
port11 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.

Its pretty explicitly not a tragedy of the commons. Its a tragedy of the ruling class abusing the resources of the 'commons' to extract value. There is nothing 'commons' about trillion dollar companies extracting all available value from the labor of the working class. That's just the tragedy that'll bring around the death of society, the same tragedy that brings all other tragedys

There’s definitely lots of problems with the ruling class and wealth disparity. Perhaps the defining problems of our current age.

That being said, so many of the plebs suck. Like 2% will ruin everything for everyone.

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