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I'm a YouTube software engineer working on the video player

• sadiq 17y ago
  There's an interesting exchange: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bcb14/im_a_youtube_software_engineer_working_on_the/c0m1hn6 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bcb14/im_a_youtube_sof... An unsubtle hint?
• frou_dh 17y ago
  I think higher level discussions are more suited to that format than globs of unstructured bug reports :-)
• antidaily 17y ago
  This is the guy who wrote swfobject.js - I recognize the handle.
  • chime 17y ago
    Indeed. His name is Geoff Stearns, blog: http://blog.deconcept.com/ http://blog.deconcept.com/
    • tensafefrogs 17y ago
      Hi!
• JoeAltmaier 17y ago
  I'm surprised video rendering takes ANY cpu cycles - with all the video card horsepower available. What is it doing if not codec tasks? Hm.
  • robin_reala 17y ago
    Nothing actually. Flash 10.1 beta will offload some h264 processing to compatible video cards, but only on Windows and that’s not the released version. Currently it uses the CPU for all decoding.
• there 17y ago
  i wish more engineers from big companies would do public interviews like that (either on hn or reddit). i'm sure there is a lot of quality feedback to be had from a collective of somewhat-more-technically-inclined users than what gets filed as bug reports. especially for companies like google who don't have public bug filing systems for many of their services.