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by TD-Linux 11y ago
No, generally encoding is done in software. It's just because VP9 is a much more complex format with many more different coding possibilities to search. It also hasn't been around as long as x264 to be hyper-optimized.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
It's based on --best for VP9 1.4.0 and placebo for x264. Generally improvement tends to be from 30-50%, based on the quality target and content (the lower the bitrate, the greater the improvement). I have objective metrics which test t
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
If by MP4 you are referring to H.264, there are still many years remaining on most of the patents. MPEG-LA publishes patent lists, if you're interested to look. You are right in that there are many other encumbered technologies that ha
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
It's referring to the lack of standardization of the VP9 codec, and the terminology is pretty common in standards bodies - it does sound weird and misleading when intermingled with free software though.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
This refers to the fact that the bitstream format of VP9 has not been standardized anywhere, whereas the NETVC group intends to produce a standard.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Er, sorry, you're right, that was a bad assertion. The submarine patent risk is pretty much the same in both cases - RF does not make it better. Early declarations to discourage use are more likely towards RF codecs, but are also easie
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Or even worse, use Flash for a car instrument cluster. Oh wait, that's already been done: https://www.adobe.com/inspire-archive/june2010/articles/arti... (used by a lot of Ford cars)
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
It is currently quite a bit slower, but the goal is to make a codec fast enough for real time communication use. VP9 is still about 9x slower than x264, but yields the same quality at half the bitrate. You can set VP9 to run a lot faster, b
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Certainly the risk is better with a royalty-free video codec, though. In the case of Daala, the goal is to be sufficiently different to avoid these broad patents, too. Also, any companies contributing to the NETVC standard are required to d
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
VP9 is a good choice if you want a royalty free video codec right now. NETVC is shooting for the next generation. In addition, the goal is to get the video codec standardized at the IETF. NETVC participation is open to anyone though, so it
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
I have, at my website (for objective metrics) http://arewecompressedyet.com/ Summary is that Thor is performing at a slightly better level than Daala and worse than VP9 or H265. But it's also missing a lot of features
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
This risk is there for pretty much any engineering you might want to do. The point here is to make a royalty-free codec, with as much IPR defense as possible.
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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec(blogs.cisco.com)
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Just because writing a whole new GUI would be a huge undertaking. I mean, if you need to do it, don't let me stop you. But I don't think it makes sense if your goal is simply "lighter weight" (I don't even know what
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
I feel like if you have to ask this question, the answer is "too hard".
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Libreoffice looks far more native than Qt does on Windows or Mac IMHO. So it still seems to be worth it.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
I don't understand what problem is being solved here. Is this just an overly convoluted way to describe load balancing?
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
I have hit the back/forth swipes by accident countless times on blogspot. It makes pretty much any article there unreadable on mobile. Switching to Reader mode in Firefox is a fix, but shouldn't be necessary in 2015.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Well, my motherboard transplant went successfully, so I'm no longer in the market for a while.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
No, they directly scrape. I've noticed this feature for over a year in Google Now. They include the delivery time and status.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
>2013 Nexus 7 that still runs great. The eMMC on mine is toast, I shopped around and couldn't find anything that I liked better and so ordered a new motherboard. Are there any other options around that size that make sense as the Ne
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Many of these movie studios sell their own movies through the Google Play store. Maybe as a first step, they could stop supporting the company that they hate so much?
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
>Personally I'd be fine with transcoding videos on the fly from another machine to remove the DRM That would probably be either illegal or against the ToS of the streaming service they were trying to add.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
This mirrors my experience. When I was in college I was always able to plug some random person's printer in via USB and it "just worked". I'm also able to autodiscover and print to all of the laser printers at work. (thi
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
So now you only print from Windows? Certainly not OS X as it also uses CUPS...
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Fortunately the Intel graphics are connected to all the display outputs. The nvidia card is always off for me (I unloaded the nouveau kernel module to be sure, but normally it turns off automatically when idle)
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Most of the Thinkpad models now have fancier IPS screens as an option. For example, my W540 has a 2880x1620 IPS display.
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
>If they use IP logs coming from Amazon, that doesn't mean anything, because Amazon employees may be signing up for Angie's List for their own personal reasons, correct? According to the lawsuit, Amazon employees were solicitin
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
For those less IETF savvy, this is an individual draft, which anyone can author and upload. It's not assigned to any WG, nor is it any sort of policy (in fact it's very much not in alignment with any of the IETF's recent work
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by TD-Linux 11y ago
Not exactly sure what the article was going for. Maybe the importance of N-type transistors (they are useful just for being more efficient). Silicon transistors are widely known for failing in a shorted state.

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