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> It's going to load fast Minor nitpick: on kinda-average U.S. home internet, with a medium-low power laptop decoding in software, the actual time to load an i

• pornel 7y ago
  With newer codecs the CPU becomes a factor indeed. This mostly makes JS/WASM polyfills for these formats unattractive. However, using native decoders with proper SIMD optimizations shouldn't be too bad. dav1d achieves 100fps in full HD on SSE3 CPUs and A11. Only mass-market Android phones are really worrying, so it may be possible to do content negotiation that is aware of trade-off between the device and network speed.
  • microcolonel 7y ago
    > dav1d achieves 100fps in full HD on SSE3 CPUs and A11 That's with multiple threads, the actual frame latency is much worse than 1/100s on a typical SSE3 CPU, if you're just decoding a single frame/image on a single thread. Decoding each image with multiple threads, you'll run into issues with throughput. That's not to say there aren't times it's worth it, and hardware decoders will start to become a reasonable way to do this (especially on Linux/Chrome OS, where it should now take less time to wire things like this up thanks to v4l2 m2m devices), but regardless there will continue to be a crossover between decode-dominant and network-dominant image loading.