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by Daiz 12y ago
With someone else mentioning Avisynth here in the comments (which is actually still used widely by video enthusiasts today), I became curious if there was a plugin for this sort of thing, and sure enough, I found Reformer[1]. With that, I f
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by Daiz 12y ago
Hmm, that does make me wonder, actually - as far as I know, you can freely distribute source code for encoders & decoders without having to pay any royalties. Binaries / compiled versions are where the royalties come in. And te
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by Daiz 12y ago
I wouldn't be in such a hurry - right now x265 (as far as I know the best HEVC encoder) still loses to x264 in terms of practical use (you only really get better results by using bitrates so low that the end product will look terrible
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by Daiz 12y ago
You can actually use HEVC for your content for free, even commercially. Royalties only get involved when distributing encoders & decoders. See page 7 here http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Documents
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by Daiz 12y ago
Gotta say I really don't like all these sites that re-encode images (even more so with videos) and claim that "we can reduce filesize with, like, no quality loss using our Super Duper Compression Magic!" Because no, it's
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by Daiz 12y ago
>There's a real argument that in a hackathon 10% extra time isn't worth it, but in the real world where you don't always have 48 hour time limits I've always been in the opinion that the initial time investment is fa
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by Daiz 12y ago
>When building a site from scratch, the additional effort required to support a wide range of devices is extremely low. If all you're doing is designing a simple website (like a blog - not exactly that complicated), then yes, mobi
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by Daiz 12y ago
If video processing is what you want to do, I can very much recommend Avisynth[1] (and while it's Windows software, it runs quite well in Wine). For a more natively cross-platform alternative, there's also Vapoursynth[2], but I pe
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by Daiz 12y ago
This is one thing that I really dislike about digital music stores - the fact that most of them don't offer a lossless option at all, and in the rare chance that they do, it usually costs extra, even though it really should come by def
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by Daiz 12y ago
>It's not japanese who are crazy, it's more like western people are totally irrational and insane! The main thing that's crazy is really the digital distribution systems available to us. If all we have is some DRM-crippled
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by Daiz 12y ago
This is something that really annoys me, as this kind of averse attitude to online distribution is also prevalent among Japanese indie (doujin) musicians. They release their albums only physically, first during doujin events and then to var
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by Daiz 12y ago
>2. Identify proper use cases. SIMD is used a lot in all kinds of things dealing with video, so that's one area where it could find uses. I wouldn't mind being able to do (realtime) video processing in the browser. Some relevan
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by Daiz 12y ago
>I wonder how many (huge) sites like imgur it would take saying "we're doing webm, if your browser doesn't support it you get a huge, slow GIF instead" for everyone just to settle on a single format? It's very un
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by Daiz 12y ago
It is harder than with plain text, yes, but it can show through at times. For example, a while back I was looking through my profile settings on a forum I have an account on, and saw a "check password security" link on it. Out of
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by Daiz 12y ago
Cracking them is so fast these days that they don't offer much in terms of security. For example, take a look at this post: http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/06/our-password-hashing-has-no-... Then note that it wa
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by Daiz 12y ago
Should really start doing this for sites using MD5/SHA1 for password hashing too, as using them is barely above plain text in terms of security these days.
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by Daiz 12y ago
Aegisub is indeed the subtitle editor, and the one I would recommend over everything else when it comes to making subtitles.
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by Daiz 12y ago
One thing I wish I had with gists is the ability to drag & drop images into (markdown) documents like you can do when writing issues, comments or such on the site proper. There are quite a few people who like using Gist as a simple writ
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by Daiz 12y ago
I'd just like to point out that the H.264 issue is way smaller than this. H.264 is a public standard that anyone is free to implement. This is why FOSS encoders and decoders for it can freely exist without any issues (and the FOSS x264
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by Daiz 12y ago
>Except if you use the new Firefox you may have better privacy and security than you currently do with flash and silverlight. "May". We're still changing a closed plugin to an even more closed black box (or actually mult
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by Daiz 12y ago
Oh, so the web has given up and is now genuflecting at the altar of video DRM. Next up: picture DRM, because since we're protecting videos we should naturally protect still pictures too. You know what? We also have all this professiona
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by Daiz 12y ago
In case it's not clear from the article, this is the thing that will fix awful webfont rendering in Chrome for Windows. It's something I've been waiting for a long time, and it's finally becoming reality. I very much l
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Chrome 35 Beta adds DirectWrite font rendering on Windows(istartedsomething.com)
3 points by Daiz 12y ago|2 comments
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by Daiz 13y ago
I had a lot of niggles with CoffeeScript as well, which is why my compiles-to-JS language of choice is LiveScript[1]. It fixes basically all the annoyances and adds a lot of nice things on top of that. For exmaple, you can write more paren-
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by Daiz 13y ago
>I think Tumblr has it right when it comes to blog commenting Tumblr's model is absolutely awful, though, because it conflates likes, plain reblogs and reblogs that actually add commentary together (and sometimes doesn't even n
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by Daiz 13y ago
Look at the image I linked and say that again. And it's not like this is particularly hard to test on your own. If you encode the same video at low enough bitrate X in 480p/720p/1080p, the higher resolution versions can have
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by Daiz 13y ago
In the various discussions about Popcorn Time here and elsewhere, the technical quality of the content has been the subject of discussion multiple times, along with mentions of illegal alternatives offering higher quality than legal ones. B
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by Daiz 13y ago
The sad thing about Popcorn Time is the way it shows how little people actually care about AV quality. One of the biggest reasons why I personally resort to illegal options (especially with video material) is because of the higher quality t
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by Daiz 13y ago
>Apple takes ~30% of iTunes though, so it still stinks How exactly does it stink? Apple provides a service and a platform for selling music, and they take a cut so they can continue to provide said service, which obviously isn't f
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by Daiz 13y ago
I've also backed a couple projects that claimed to give me DRM-free digital downloads of video material. In one case, what I actually got was a bunch of private web streams, with promises of downloads "someday in the future when i

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