4 ms·

Exactly this, it's slightly annoying to see the claim scenes are "slow" or "not what they used to be". They use the technology that it makes the most sense to u

by worble 8y ago

Exactly this, it's slightly annoying to see the claim scenes are "slow" or "not what they used to be". They use the technology that it makes the most sense to use, weighing up encoding speeds, tooling, quality at the resolutions they care about, and output size. They will actually move when some of these technologies actually start providing major benefits that outstrip the existing technologies in these categories.

zamadatix 8y ago
I disagree with your reasoning, the scene hasn't slowed because new technologies don't offer anything it's slowed because optimizing every bit of the transfer like you had to on old internet is no longer relevant and so "use the technology that it makes the most sense to use" has become "use h.264 or h.265 because dedicated players and hardware offload support it". If anyone really cares about extreme quality at this point they'll just download a rip of the original media rather than a transcoded copy There is no longer a driving force behind pushing the limit of encoding in the scene and so the scene HAS slowed.
userbinator 8y ago
Another point is that the pirate scene obviously does not care at all about patents/openness, so their choices are driven strongly by technological factors. Plain old conservatism also plays a role. This can be seen in warez too, where RAR is still popular despite 7z being often just as good in compression ratio while also open.
- canofbars 8y ago
  They don't care about violating patents but they care about open source more than the general population. Taking a look at the stats from a large private tracker, a huge chunk of the users are running firefox on linux and the forums are full of open source talk. FLAC tends to be the only allowed lossless codec over all the proprietary ones.

4 ms·

Exactly this, it's slightly annoying to see the claim scenes are "slow" or "not what they used to be". They use the technology that it makes the most sense to u

by worble 8y ago

zamadatix 8y ago
I disagree with your reasoning, the scene hasn't slowed because new technologies don't offer anything it's slowed because optimizing every bit of the transfer like you had to on old internet is no longer relevant and so "use the technology that it makes the most sense to use" has become "use h.264 or h.265 because dedicated players and hardware offload support it". If anyone really cares about extreme quality at this point they'll just download a rip of the original media rather than a transcoded copy There is no longer a driving force behind pushing the limit of encoding in the scene and so the scene HAS slowed.
userbinator 8y ago
Another point is that the pirate scene obviously does not care at all about patents/openness, so their choices are driven strongly by technological factors. Plain old conservatism also plays a role. This can be seen in warez too, where RAR is still popular despite 7z being often just as good in compression ratio while also open.
- canofbars 8y ago
  They don't care about violating patents but they care about open source more than the general population. Taking a look at the stats from a large private tracker, a huge chunk of the users are running firefox on linux and the forums are full of open source talk. FLAC tends to be the only allowed lossless codec over all the proprietary ones.