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That's a big part of it. But the other part, which can actually contribute more time than the decoding, is simply slow software on the STB.
by jaywalk 7y ago
That's a big part of it. But the other part, which can actually contribute more time than the decoding, is simply slow software on the STB.
- 01100011 7y agoThere are some terrible middleware implementations out there. I remember hearing about some early attempts from DirecTV at building a DVR. They were encoding everything in xml and sending it through IPC spaghetti. IME, the level of talent in the consumer electronics space is much less than, say, a big N company. You have a lot of EE turned sw guy types, or java-trained CS grads who don't understand performance. Now that the industry is slowly dying, it's losing even more talent.