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by jbk 2y ago
FastMail :)
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by jbk 2y ago
I've not seen that, I can ask.
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by jbk 2y ago
I will have a look.
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by jbk 2y ago
Did you file bug reports?
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by jbk 2y ago
> I am surprised we got LC-EVC in. I pushed quite a lot on that, tbh, because of the Brazil adoption.
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by jbk 2y ago
I documented that a bit that, in the past: every ODD.1 release is LTS. And the LTS is maintained at least as long as the next LTS is, and should be at least 3 years. So, for example, we support 5.1 and 7.1 as LTS. And we support 6.1 and 4.4
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by jbk 2y ago
No, no, it's done on GPU.
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by jbk 2y ago
> Does this "Vulkan based encoding" mean we'll be able to get the best of both worlds? Unlikely. This is just a generic API to the same GPU backends; so you will not see more quality than nvenc.
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by jbk 2y ago
Yes, it's quite a big release, with a ton of things that were underway, and they got merged!
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FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs(jbkempf.com)
167 points by jbk 2y ago|46 comments
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by jbk 2y ago
The worst is that Telegram Secret Chats are limited in functionalities, compared to the normal ones, for no reasons. Stickers set don’t work, for exemple, and that’s one of the main feature of Telegram chats.
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by jbk 2y ago
How are only 30M people on Chrome using uBO? How do the other people survive on the web?
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by jbk 2y ago
Did someone tell you about SAP Ariba? The website for invoices where you cannot click on your list of invoices, but can get an other click menu to get “send me a link by email”…
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by jbk 2y ago
_(President of VideoLAN here)_ The remark here is that AppStores have so much power that they are forcing limiting rules, and few people complain, because they have no choices. On Android, we can either give Google our private (!) key or no
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by jbk 2y ago
What I really want is the next step: the one where it manages user groups and roles. :)
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Disabling a sandbox check in xz(twitter.com)
6 points by jbk 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbk 3y ago
> Finally, believable numbers. Please note before this in this very thread you claimed “800% increase” which was totally incorrect. You cheery pick my comments and cannot be bothered reading. We’re talking against fully optimized-autovec
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by jbk 3y ago
> and assembly is not needed anymore even for very performance-sensitive use cases like video codecs People in this thread, writing video codecs for years that you use daily tell you that, no, it’s a lot faster (10-20%), but you, who hav
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by jbk 3y ago
> Scalar loopy C code sure. The auto vectorization is not great. Stop considering people as idiots. People do that because it’s a LOT faster, not just a bit. If you are so able, please show us your results. Dav1d is full open source, ful
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by jbk 3y ago
> Today you'll have to work real hard to beat LLVM in optimizing basic SIMD code. On dav1d, we see just a 800% increase… I know it’s negligible, but…
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by jbk 3y ago
(Disclaimer: President of VideoLAN here) Just a few remarks: VLC-Unity plugin is fully open source, and anyone skilled enough can build it themself. We've tried for months to discuss with Unity and it was a nightmare. We've had di
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by jbk 3y ago
The new version of the CRA is quite an improvement, and most of discussions around the open source communities were about older versions that were quite concerning. There were a lot of scary discussions on the foundations mailing list and o
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Unity is probably going to do layoffs(theverge.com)
13 points by jbk 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbk 3y ago
> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize
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by jbk 3y ago
> From what I understand the more you increase multithreading with ffmpeg the more you get quality issues... No. If you don't max out your CPU, you will not have quality issues.
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by jbk 3y ago
We're very happy for your volunteering to record our next developer conference, tickets are free!
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by jbk 3y ago
It's difficult to understand what this is about without the presentation from Anton, at VideoLAN Dev Days 2023, that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DS3jiZhfo&t=1221
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by jbk 3y ago
> I think it's very easy to treat people in such a binary manner. I get it. It’s not generally easy, but I think I’m in the position to say that. The guy has the choice of company to work with and has the choice in the company and w
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by jbk 3y ago
> How can this view be with this spec, which he is the main author of? Surely Ben sees the parallels? It can be reconciled with love for money and total lack of moral fiber. Aka « I don’t give a shit about my actions destroying every one
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by jbk 3y ago
> Being at the VDD conference when the libav and FFmpeg developers got together in a single room and agreed to come together It has been a difficult process, but we got things done, in the end... I'm glad we're past this. >

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