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by BTeam 8y ago
They switched their AV1 decoder from libaom to dav1d.
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by BTeam 8y ago
Version freezing attack can be done even if the client tries to connect over TLS, simply by dropping SYN requests to the update server, or by DNS manipulation, etc.
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by BTeam 8y ago
They have a network of voluntary mirrors using very different stacks that give them storage and bandwidth for free. Similar to Debian's APT [0]. VideoLAN isn't in a position to enforce it's hosts to serve the files over TLS.
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by BTeam 8y ago
The BitTorrent protocol uses UDP only when using a congestion control mechanism on top of it (uTP). In fact uTP is aware when the send buffer is filled and when latency is introduced so that it automatically back-off and let interactive tra
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by BTeam 8y ago
It's on the roadmap for VLC 4.0, the new medialibrary (C++11) is in the process of being added as a module. The interface is also being reworked in QML. This medialibrary is already used in VLC for Android for music album classificatio
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by BTeam 8y ago
SSH is a cryptographic network protocol that doesn't use SSL/TLS.
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by BTeam 8y ago
Netflix and Amazon also already encode in HEVC, they stream it to compatible players/hardware
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by BTeam 8y ago
Furthermore webm/Matroska AV1 mapping isn't finalized, same situation with MP4.
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by BTeam 8y ago
x264 is an AVC encoding software by VideoLAN.
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by BTeam 8y ago
There is Orgzly, but it's not very practical.
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by BTeam 8y ago
> help serve those videos from their home connection While it's what we usually do when we uses BitTorrent and similar protocols, this is ignoring network topology, and somewhat inefficient. Of course, theoretically not the global b
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Ask HN: Why academic researchers aren't rewarded according to their impact?
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by BTeam 8y ago
Until someone actually do it, and better. Good luck monetize your proprietary alternative then!
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by BTeam 8y ago
Libre software and the open source spirit existed long before Internet. Sure, It was really hard to find projects and contribute to them, but we can do it since the dawn of computer science.
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by BTeam 8y ago
That's forgetting the push for EME as a W3C standard.
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by BTeam 8y ago
Path tracing in general do not technically terminate since it's trying to approach an integral (the rendering equation) with sums. It's up to the user to determine the sample per pixel threshold with which he is satisfied. The goa
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by BTeam 9y ago
Indeed! This implementation was started by some people working on AV1 to test libaom's specification implementation correctness. There was a presentation about it at VDD17, if I remember correctly.
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by BTeam 9y ago
The base was VP10 + tools from Thor (Cisco) and Daala (Xiph.Org/Mozilla), and it evolved from there to AV1 through a process of "experiments", test, IP checks and then its enablement. Assuming that VP10 shares a significant b
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by BTeam 9y ago
No, but it has been added to VLC git master (cf. changelog [1]) as an experimental feature using libaom. [1] https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=H...
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by BTeam 9y ago
VideoLAN's president, jbkempf, was considering finding manpower to build an AV1 implementation a couple months ago. Not sure of the status now.