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SVT Encore – Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
- cpach 5y agoLiterally my tax money at work :-p
- 3np 5y agoI guess you mean your radio license money? SVT is not funded by taxes.
- sagolikasoppor 5y agoIt for sure is, you can see it on your tax declaration.
- capableweb 5y agoA quick search would have led you to the Wikipedia page, where the first paragraph is the following > [SVT] is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament) https://www.regeringen.se/regeringens-politik/medier/ny-avgift-ersatter-radio--och-tv-avgiften--fragor-och-svar/ https://www.regeringen.se/regeringens-politik/medier/ny-avgi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Television
- 3np 5y agoMy bad, did not know it had changed
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- cpach 5y agoIt used to be funded by a license but the parliament had a vote in 2018 which changed that, so it’s now funded by taxes.
- alkonaut 5y ago*license. Not tax. A distinction that is subtle but still important.
- sagolikasoppor 5y agoIt used to be a license but then they switched to taking the money directly from every tax paying adult, thus increasing their budget with a couple of billion SEK.
- georgiecasey 5y agoWas this because license revenue dropped? They want to do the same in Ireland
- sagolikasoppor 5y agoI would say so, yes. As another commentator said they tried to get more people to pay but failed and then instead used corrupt politicians to do their bidding. I didn't use to pay, now I have no choice.
- jontro 5y agoIn the long run it would've. It was mandatory to pay if you owned a TV. They tried to collect it for people having laptops / mobile phones but it was ruled illegal in the courts. Instead the government replaced it with a new tax which seems more fair.
- alkonaut 5y agoIt’s still a license or “fee”, not a tax. What changed is who they charge it from and how it’s collected (now through the same method as taxes). The license being charged from every taxpayer and collected using tax collection mechanisms doesn’t make it a tax. The difference is that a tax would be collected into the budget and SVT would be funded through the budget. A license on the other hand is paid directly to the public service companies which (in theory) gives some amount of political independence. So: license, not tax. It might look to some like a useless distinction “how is money paid on my tax bill not a tax!?”, but there is an important difference.
- kalleboo 5y agoSince it's probably not clear to most HN readers, this is maintained by the Swedish public broadcaster (SVT: Sveriges Television) which provides a video streaming service (similar to BBC iPlayer) at https://www.svtplay.se https://www.svtplay.se The documentation has a story about how the project came about (as a replacement for the proprietary system they were using) https://svt.github.io/encore-doc/#projecthistory https://svt.github.io/encore-doc/#projecthistory
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoI was assuming it was part of Intel's SVT encoder project https://01.org/svt https://01.org/svt
- guerrilla 5y agoSpeaking of that, today is the last day to see the 24/7 "slow TV" streaming of the moose crossing the stream [1]. https://www.svtplay.se/video/30837126/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-3-9-maj-08-00-1 https://www.svtplay.se/video/30837126/den-stora-algvandringe...
- SahAssar 5y agoSeems like it is essentially a job queue for video transcoding?
- jack_riminton 5y agoYeah some examples of what you can do with it would help
- tgv 5y agoThat's what it looks like. Scalable, though. Might be good for burst-like processing.
- maxekman 5y agoAs a Swede I was not expecting the (for us familiar) SVT abbreviation to show up here. I definitely expected that it was some other org with the same name! Nice surprise.
- imartin2k 5y agoMore details here https://medium.com/the-svt-tech-blog/encore-open-source-licensed-to-once-again-transcode-bbf854f7a812 https://medium.com/the-svt-tech-blog/encore-open-source-lice...