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Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so
by jimduk 6y ago
Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly remember mb-tree coming out and x264 quality/bitrate performance changing from good to supergood, and reading Dark Shikari's check in note about taking the implicit dependency graph and using it to propagate the relative quality of the blocks and it was a 'wow' moment. Also the Loren Merritt quote page still holds up well http://www.x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/loren.html http://www.x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/loren.html . Thank you
- jbk 6y ago> Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Pretty fun, tbh.
- ksec 6y agoI really wish Dark Shikari and Loren Merritt had continue to work on x265 or some other video encoder. 80%+ of all Video on the Internet are still on H.264 / AVC. And vast majority of them are encoded through x264. Their contribution to Video Encoding can not be understated.
- plorkyeran 6y agoThe issues related to commercial licensing of x264 probably ensured that Dark Shikari would never want to work on video encoding things again even before she burned out and quit software development entirely a few years later.
- mpfundstein 6y agowhat kind of person is Dark Shikari actually? Didnt know she is female. Where is she from? Is she employed somewhere or a freelancer???? I just wonder because she is such a legend but internet knows NOTHING. Bit like Satoshi...
- ksec 6y ago>But internet knows NOTHING. She prefer to keep herself private. Those in the community would know. So it isn't exactly Internet knows nothing.
- mpfundstein 6y agook public internet then.
- rodgerd 6y agoWhy is it any of the public Internet's business?