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Shout out to all the devs who never sold their souls.
except all those "consumer friedly" torrent things are the definition of selling one's soul.
In what sense? Leeching?
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
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#412Quite nice that they, unlike the free ones on the "Youtube Movies" channel, can be downloaded by YouTube Premium users without any hassle.
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Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res.
>Could be a DRM thing. You might not have a trusted display/decoding device, so it gives you the low res. True, but that is why this is a hard engineering challenge -- there are a lot of variations on client-side devices which need to be supported well. Upgrade cycles for TVs is 3x that of phones, is my guess.
Except there are only 3 DRM providers, and as a streaming service provider you just wrap the 3 providers libraries and write a few config files.
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Damn man, what is going on at Viaplay now? My former team lead used to work there and went back after he left the place where we worked together. This was my intuition as well, unless you are doing B2B (with billing proportional to the streaming) you have to do the hosting yourself.
I don't know much anymore, I know they run more ads than content and that they're running very lean. A lot of people had to go when the stock tanked. I have some conspiracy theory that "they" wiped the stock harder than deserved to be able to buy back ownership on the cheap... I had to deal with Viaplay HR recently to get some documents out, took a month to get ahold of someone who could do it...
Jeez that sucks, was it all due to the decision to offload streaming to 3rd parties? How could they not do any cost estimations? It must have been a huge project that lasted months.
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#415Murder in the First is one of them, and it is a long favorite of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X42yOL5Ah4E&list=PL7Eup7JXSc...
It has the best performance I've ever seen by Kevin Bacon, and a solid performance from Christian Slater. Gary Oldman is a solid villian. R. L. Emery does his usual thing, but he's really good at that usual thing. I think about lines and ideas from it frequently. Granted, this is partly because the movie came out when I was 15 and I watched it a formative age with friends. But I've also watched it recently, and I think it holds up.
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Tell you what, let's make a bet. I'll bet you $100 that there will not be a successful long form (more than 20 minutes) AI production in the next 10 years. By that, I mean something where either the dialog or the video (or both) is completely done by AI. By successful, let's say something that wins a non-AI award (For example, an Oscar or Emmy) or receives something like a 70% positive review on rotten tomatoes, IMDB…
> By that, I mean something where either the dialog or the video (or both) is completely done by AI. I don't think LLMs can write nuanced character arcs, so let's not include them. On the subject of the visuals being completely AI, we need to be able to steer the video with more than just text prompts. Do you remove the possibility of using motion capture performances, compositing, or other techniques? I think we'll…
> Do you remove the possibility of using motion capture performances, compositing, or other techniques?
These things are "not AI".
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Yeah, “a decent video player” feels like something that should be table-stakes commodity stuff, there are certainly a fair number of good open source video player components and toolkits with customizable skins and support for tons of playback formats and protocols. But no, this is actually something billion dollar companies struggle with.
I'm surprised that there isn't a standardized open source web video player which all websites use so users have the same video player experience and features across the web. Usually commercial or "free" video players are bad like JW player or whatever freemium players there are. There are open source HTML players tho but they are not as powerful and feature rich as YouTube player. I remember watching IGN gaming video…
Video.js does a pretty good job. Most of these places seem to choose to have a bad experience, by not understanding what they're doing and getting a terrible vendor solution. Often triggered by DRM panic.
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I laughed. Netflix 4K is some bs in my experience. A 4K file of the same show, pirated, is vastly better quality. Whatever they do to it is just vandalism.
4K doesn't really say anything about image quality, just the resolution of the picture, which tells you the theoretical maximum level of visual detail. Focusing on resolution is like asking "how strong is one meter of rope" without talking about the composition of the rope. With streaming video, image quality ultimately comes down to the codec and the bitrate. They probably use a relatively low bitrate regardless of…
Bitrate can be massive with a low quality video so that also doesn't tell you much.
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#419There was a time fairly early in Netflix's streaming era when all the studios were just dumping their old back catalogs on Netflix to get some revenue from 'dead content' that I thought "Wow, someday soon pretty much all the old content will just be available on a central streaming service. The future will be good." Then the stock market started inflating the value of streamers because of ARR projections and studios…
Most things are on Amazon if you’re willing to pay for them individually. It’s more buffet style streaming services that splintered. Per movie may seem expensive, but at the low end of hours per month watch time streaming services are a bad deal.
Apple has a rental model like this as well, dating back to the iPod Video days. It still exists for the AppleTV.
For people who only watch a couple movies per month, this is cheaper, with more variety, than any streaming service. While also avoiding the trap of forgotten subscriptions that aren’t being used.
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#420I assume they get "monetization" from Youtube and they don't need to worry about hosting or discovery. Probably better than doing nothing with these films.
I'm a little surprised there isn't more of this. Building a streaming service is pretty expensive.. a lot of the platforms lost money doing so and really only made it back when they merged into an umbrella of other services. I'm also a little surprised no one has yet (AFAIK) done the "viral indie release to Youtube" path. I feel like it's sitting there waiting to be exploited.
There is a price to pay for the control they’re trying to maintain. That price is called profit, in most cases.