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The problem is that most of the big tech thinks they are smarter than 1000's of codec engineers who worked on libx264 and they try to reinvent the wheel. They r
by manca 5y ago
The problem is that most of the big tech thinks they are smarter than 1000's of codec engineers who worked on libx264 and they try to reinvent the wheel. They realize too late that all the money they threw into building their own stuff (or variants) do far worse in general case than the baseline libx264. They just don't want to admit it.
- LdSGSgvupDV 5y agoBidTechEngineer: Ya, I know, but I need that wasted money.
- manca 5y agoAbsolutely. In fact, I interviewed a guy last week that comes from very big tech and he basically himself admitted that they're basically wasting time and money chasing unknown "ideal" codec while almost always those projects hit dead end. He loves the money, I am sure, but he wants out anyway. :)
- Tade0 5y agoWho wouldn't eventually? I've been to a project where, because the development and "hardening" budgets were separate, we knowingly pushed out buggy code so that we could take advantage of the latter. Had I known that half of the job would be to game the system, I wouldn't have joined.
- nowherebeen 5y ago> half of the job would be to game the system, I wouldn't have joined. Bureaucracy is inevitable once a certain number of people join a group.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"Had I known that half of the job would be to game the system" You should be happy it's only half!
- ignoramous 5y ago...and I need that promotion to Senior Staff.
- scottoreily 5y agoBig tech engineers don’t care lol look at Googlers who only build things to get promoted, leave after vesting, then Google kills the product years later
- mlazos 5y agoI don’t think it’s that they don’t want to admit it, it’s that the cost savings from something disruptive may make it worth it at scale. Or that somebody wants to risk their career on it haha and big tech has tons of cash to throw around.
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- esperent 5y agoI think libx265 is the baseline now BTW (correct me if I'm wrong).