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by bobdvb 4y ago
"Fast enough" is a contentious point for many tech people. There are very few consumer use cases that demand super fast broadband. I think basically you can say that you need about 15Mbps per person with 10Mbps overhead/margi
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by bobdvb 4y ago
https://github.com/cannonbeach/ott-packager
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by bobdvb 4y ago
As a relative beginner to Docker at home, the biggest issue I've had is that there is a presumption that everything is HTTP. I wanted to run two apps in two Docker containers that both wanted UDP on the same port and couldn't do i
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by bobdvb 4y ago
It makes sense, if everyone streams then it'll create significant congestion once awareness rises due to people trying to use Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ etc. Better to offer people a free tier to allow folk to WhatsApp, FB, tweet,
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I'll take that
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by bobdvb 4y ago
As someone who works at a streaming service: thank you. We are people, we have ambitions and families. We're not just a faceless corporation.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Interestingly, there's a few LoRa messenger projects out there. They wouldn't provide high data rates, just messenger capabilities, but it would be long range and practically untraceable.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Another good thread about how the terminals and subscriptions have been done from someone else whose been buying them: https://twitter.com/dim0kq/status/1580827171903635456
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Note that if you use VBR instead of CBR the video player will have more trouble with buffering logic because (many players) will buffer a fixed duration or number of segments. When there's lots of action the bitrate will be high and wh
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by bobdvb 4y ago
https://github.com/cannonbeach/ott-packager Then feed that into any CDN which works with HLS, which should be all of them. All CDNs are going to charge based on usage, that's how they work, some offer a free tier
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Every aspect of media delivery has a patent associated with it. Adaptive bitrate streaming? Patented. Segmented delivery of a stream? Patented. Picking a quality from a drop down? Patented. One machine passing video to another? Patented. If
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by bobdvb 4y ago
WAF = Wife Acceptance Factor, now with added junior school kid! I love my LG OLED TV, everything I need is on the remote.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Yea, we can call folks greedy left right and centre, but the "all content must be free" brigade gets a bit tiring after a while. Servers need to be built and powered, content needs to get moved around the world at lightning speeds
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I have YouTube Premium for the whole family, watching YT any other way is now unacceptable! Maybe it's sad that I have to be forced to pay to hide the ads? But yoinks, the platform needs to get paid somehow and honestly YT Premium is p
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Costs 5x more to deliver, few people would be able to consume it and 95% of consumers wouldn't notice the difference. You might be in the 5%, but most people you know aren't, or at least don't care enough. Multiple studies by
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I'm a technologist in the media sector, I worked for a big ISP in one of the innovation teams and we were struggling to think of future applications that would actually occupy 1Gbps for consumers. You might say "low compression, h
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by bobdvb 4y ago
They aren't 'just' a streaming platform, they are doing a whole load of things that change tech for the better. They've already established what's probably now the standard in video quality measurement with VMAF. Th
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Many organisations need standards, they need formally defined things to point at and say 'make me one of those'. It doesn't always have to be the best, it doesn't always have to be the easiest, but without standards you
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by bobdvb 4y ago
The 60TB Isilon I ordered for video storage was 115k... (5 years ago granted)
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by bobdvb 4y ago
My wife's first language isn't English and she can sometimes struggle with accents/dialects. They're also good when you have children around where ambient noise might take you away from the dialogue.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
The problem is that, as Hardware Unboxed and others have demonstrated in their disputes with nVidia, if you're not releasing reviews on the manufacturer's schedule (e.g. samples available early and then following embargos for rele
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Yup, he's already said they're planning to publish extended write-ups. I imagine it'll be something along the lines of ServeTheHome but with wider topics.
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Yup, the code is already in: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-DG... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.... https://www.phoronix.com/
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Yea, I have to agree, I look at GN videos that pop up in my timeline and have to decide if I am in the mood for that kind of negativity. It's like trying to decide if you're going to put the evening news on and face all the pain a
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by bobdvb 4y ago
Commercial services: * Mux.com * Vimeo Pro Open source: https://github.com/cannonbeach/ott-packager If self-hosting, ensure you're using a CDN, serving video from a web server to an audience will eat bandwidth and
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by bobdvb 4y ago
I think I'd disagree with the assertion about Elijah Wood, Deep Impact was a pretty big film and he had a key role in that. He also had many other roles before that in some pretty notable films, especially The Faculty and heck, he was
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by bobdvb 4y ago
There's lots of different kinds of monopoly, they can be natural or created by government, but they don't require government intervention, more the lack of intervention can create an effective monopoly. https://en.wikip
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by bobdvb 11y ago
We've been using Qt as a core part of our product but increasingly it is looking more difficult to justify. Most of our customers don't want it and it adds constraints that could be hurting us. Add to that the exotic licensing mod
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by bobdvb 11y ago
My experience of buying 20k disks at a time is that even those volumes aren't significant to the manufacturers. So essentially you are asking the distributor to label them. Given that you have multiple vendors and you also seem to have
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by bobdvb 12y ago
If Ikea stocked them in their stores then the logistics could easily be covered with their economies of scale. Importantly if Ikea did stock them it would be a way of raising money for the project. They could sell them for $1500 and give aw

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