Daiz

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by Daiz 14y ago
A video standard essentially defines a set of methods for compressing video - it's up to the encoding applications to decide how to apply those methods and where. Basically, the smarter decisions the encoder can make, the higher quality res
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by Daiz 14y ago
Even if they had actually developed some "interesting algorithms", they sure don't seem to be using them, at least not in the actual video encoding process. There's really no other explanation for the fact that you can end up with practical
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by Daiz 14y ago
I've finished my comparisons now. HN submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5289532
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Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video(gist.github.com)
245 points by Daiz 14y ago|137 comments
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by Daiz 14y ago
Based on the comparing I've done on the second clip so far, they seem to be doing absolutely nothing special - at approximately the same bitrate and settings, the videos are practically identical quality-wise (in fact, the most recent x264
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by Daiz 14y ago
>If they bought a commercial license, there's nothing illegal or wrong in what they do. Looking into it, they seem to have actually done that. ICVT, the company behind Beamr, can be found on the list of x264 commercial adopters[1]. Does
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by Daiz 14y ago
>In any case, it'd be interesting to reencode the original clip using plain x264, once using the same options they used and once using some sane x264 preset. I'm up for that. It'll take a while to download all the source videos, but I'l
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by Daiz 14y ago
As others have noted, Beamr's "magical" technology simply seems to be using x264, the state-of-the-art in H.264 encoders, which also happens to be free and open source software. Looking at their site, beamrvideo.com, the bitrates they list
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by Daiz 14y ago
Proper kerning in browsers is still "work in progress" anyway - there's the text-rendering[1] property, which when set to optimizeLegibility enables kerning. However, there's some bugs with how it behaves, and only Firefox enables it by def
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by Daiz 14y ago
>Why is control that important? It's what they're used to - back before the internet existed, these middlemen pretty much had total control over what media people were exposed to. They were the gatekeepers of media. Then the internet ca
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by Daiz 14y ago
Why HDCP is still used despite being utterly broken is simply the fact that it gives media corporations 'control'. You know those anti-circumvention laws for DRM? Yeah. Even DVDs still ship with CSS for this reason - when RealNetworks relea