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Exploiting a WebKit 0-day in Playstation 4(synacktiv.com)
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Safari to not implement 16 new Web APIs due to privacy concerns(twitter.com)
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by jbk 6y ago
> x264 has been one of the most heavily optimized encoders whose development was sponsored by many different organizations No, it did not. > whereas libvpx did not see the same kind of love and most of the work came from Google'
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by jbk 6y ago
Sorry about that.
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by jbk 6y ago
Currently, this code is only reachable in the case of a hardware decoder, on macOS, using VideoToolbox library, when it needs annexB conversion. But as there are other issues on other dependencies, we preferred to bump it everywhere.
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by jbk 6y ago
https://code.videolan.org/jbk/libndi/
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by jbk 6y ago
Powerdvd requires SGX for 4K Blu-ray’s IIUC https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/77436.page
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by jbk 6y ago
Nice!
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by jbk 6y ago
> don't you think you'd enjoy more if you had worked on lots of different projects, tech, companies, etc... instead of "just" VLC? Well, to be honest, I'd love to extend what we're doing in VLC to other end-
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by jbk 6y ago
> It sounds like your questions are calibrated to detect if the interviewee is passionate. Yes, passionate, so they will work on something cool, and are going to like it. Not passionate in the sense "I can pressure 60hours from them
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by jbk 6y ago
> Would you mind telling us more about your recruitment process? So, in general, I ask 2 main questions: - talk to me about you, what you like and which project you worked on that you liked. - a generic question, that can be a bit mislea
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by jbk 6y ago
> Although ideally you'd want to have the money not the admiration. :\ Admiration is un-valuable. :D
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by jbk 6y ago
> I wonder : do you have the same engineer turn over than "regular" companies, that is developers leaving after two or three years max? We don't. Clearly not. People leaving is very rare. But also, our recruitment is very
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by jbk 6y ago
> Part of your reward is that traffic cone It's our secret goal: the cone religion! :)
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by jbk 6y ago
Because, as soon as I wanted to raise money from VC to grow the business, it was very difficult to get anything. And we have a lot of research and projects, that we never get released, and other people use the tech, rewrap it and get the $$
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by jbk 6y ago
I've been working on VideoLAN (VLC, x264, other...) for most of my professional life. For a long time, I had other jobs, working at startups around video, and doing VLC at nights and weekends and holidays. And now, I built a couple of
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by jbk 6y ago
It's quite nice that they managed to make the plasma version look the same as the Xfce version.
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by jbk 7y ago
> I’m wondering if they time spent in writing asm for av1 could also be spend in writing an optimising pass for the c compiler? Frankly, no. Improving the compiler could get a few dozen of %, which is huge already. But 300%+, no.
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by jbk 7y ago
> I'm not sure that operating systems are so suited to ASM optimization I do not know, to be honest. I was just pointing that multimedia and game engines can get a lot of helps on ASM by hand.
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by jbk 7y ago
> you typically can’t vectorize OS code since it isn’t ALU bound The answer and parent were in no way only talking about OS.
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by jbk 7y ago
That is still writing asm. You need to write it, the compiler cannot do it by itself.
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by jbk 7y ago
> but with modern compilers, what does assembly get you over just using C or another language [...] I was under the impression compilers nowadays have lots of optimizations that would take a lot of work for a human to do by hand dav1d,
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by jbk 7y ago
This is really cool. I just wished they had moved Scoped Labels to Free too. And I would love that the SAST framework goes to Free too and kept have the security scanners Premium. That would allow to have basic code coverage directly in Fre
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by jbk 7y ago
Konsole had security concerns about this feature: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379294
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by jbk 7y ago
Documentation is off-topic here, but we're rewriting the documentation currently here: https://docs.videolan.me/vlc-user/3.0/en/index.html
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by jbk 7y ago
> Are you looking at how you preserve the preferences too? Yes, per media preferences for subs and filter.
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by jbk 7y ago
Controlling the player over a unix socket is not a UI feature, almost by definition. And the rest is lack of documentation, and sure our documentation sucks, but that is far from the question here.
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by jbk 7y ago
> I was asking because for me the UI is fine and usually when software gets "redesigned" for no apparent reason it means features get removed because "simplicity". We are not removing features. If a feature is remove
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by jbk 7y ago
Yes, this will be available because of the redesign.
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by jbk 7y ago
Oh sure. But we're not doing a reddit-thingie: we're doing some reskinning of the player and adding an optional media library. And improving the audio usage quite a bit. And we're using 21st century tech to overlay controls o

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