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by bobdvb 10mo ago
HDMI's gate is certification and the ability to then use their marketing brand. This is absolutely not a technical issue. You can implement the 2.1 spec if you want, you just can't say it's 2.1. If Valve wanted they could hap
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
They're wrong, there's nothing stopping you implementing anything you like, you just can't use the HDMI brand without complying with their rules.
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
They don't really have to worry about patent infringement, the biggest issue is that they can implement anything they want, they just can't call it HDMI 2.1 without certification. That's confusing for the consumer but technic
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
No, they don't put DP on because every $ of hardware they fit to the TV needs to provide value. DP requires a large board component that may need manual handling, circuit traces (+ decoupling) and silicon on the chip to interface. It t
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
You would dilute the seeding pool, which will already get diluted enough.
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
One of my projects won one of these. It was for standardising widescreen switching signals, in the early 2000s that was a big issue because each company had a different interpretation of what the flags meant. Thus when you were watching TV
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
It's only royalty free from AOM, it doesn't mean it isn't patent encumbered. I know several companies that are claiming AV1 violates their patents and they want money if you use it.
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
Rendering out at high quality takes quite a bit of processing, so it helps to have GPU / HW Enc support.
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
You were doing so well until the last paragraph, then you failed.
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
Apple is considered golden because it's hard to tamper with the video pipeline. Windows isn't perfect but you can take steps. But overall 90% of premium content is not viewed on computers, it's TVs and STBs. If it wasn't
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
I've spent >20 years doing content security in various forms at various companies. Until recently I was directing the technology at a major streaming platform. I can confirm that while there are serious issues with Widevine (and to
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
From previous experience some platforms are considered a "leakage source" for content and major rights owners won't put their content there because it's too easy to steal from. The security measures that are put on strea
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by bobdvb 10mo ago
Many content rights contracts I see instruct the streaming platforms that they must detect Linux and either give low quality or deny the playback entirely. It's because, rightly or not, they don't trust Linux in comparison to MacO
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
I worked for a company that built a really advanced TV DVR software stack, commissioned by a well know Linux distro company, could have been amazing. It was capable of handling combinations of TV playback and recording that would make any c
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
It wasn't really a comment on the tech of DRM but of the business threats that require its use. That being said, streaming content security is more than just DRM and DRM is more than just copy protection. There's a whole suite of
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
1) I've never had an issue with this on Teams or WebEx calls. 2) When more than one person is on a call, try to find a meeting room. Then everyone else in the desk area doesn't have to suffer. 3) This is why I stopped going to the
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
Until I changed job recently, I spent the past 8 years working in an area of tech that many people on places like HN and Reddit think that the work is a horrific waste of effort (DRM and content security for a streaming company). The idea t
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
There are lots of platforms where people pay for their distribution, but they're not as successful. The main problem is that smaller creators couldn't afford the true cost of hosting and indexing to the level that YT provides. As
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by bobdvb 11mo ago
For a lot of people (not me), if it's not from AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle then it's not cloud, it's just a sparkling hosting provider. I had someone on this site arguing that Cloudflare isn't a cloud provider...
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by bobdvb 1y ago
In streaming your website is typically totally divorced from your media serving. Media serving is just a question of cloud storage and pointing at an hls/dash manifest in that object store. Once it starts playing the website itself doe
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by bobdvb 1y ago
Is that a good advert for Salesforce?
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by bobdvb 1y ago
I sponsor several creators on Patreon, I don't watch early release videos because that would require me to log into Patreon and follow the link. I've told the creators that I follow that I'm paying to enable them to do what t
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by bobdvb 1y ago
I was at a talk recently where a person from an ad supported streaming provider broke down their cost/revenue as part of the justification for some of their engineering decisions. Basically you're lucky to get ad revenue of 10c pe
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by bobdvb 1y ago
It's speculated that YT wasn't profitable long after Google acquired it as well, it's still unclear as to if stand-alone it would be profitable, without the infrastructure benefits of being part of Google. As a guy who builds
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by bobdvb 1y ago
My wife and I occasionally work while we're visiting her parents. We get away with doing teams calls at the same time on a 15/15 wireless link. Congestion only starts if our son downloads something while watching YT, while we&#x27
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by bobdvb 1y ago
Given that the piracy charges can be fined as low as €50, it can be discussed proportionately. I totally agree that the AI companies should be accountable for their intellectual property leaching.
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by bobdvb 1y ago
In Greece the bars are closed during voting to 1) Keep people sober. 2) Avoid politicians buying people drinks for votes on the day.
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by bobdvb 1y ago
That's like saying "The Great Wall of China is just like any other garden wall."
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by bobdvb 1y ago
Every time you make a decision which increases the needed bandwidth, or device performance, you eliminate a portion of your target market for whatever you're doing. There comes a point at which attempting to address everyone means you
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by bobdvb 1y ago
It's amazingly usable when you stop trying to circumvent things. I watch a great deal of YouTube, probably more than any other streaming service now. It's very usable with Premium.

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