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by kierank 11y ago
(Guy who Reverse Engineered CFHD here) If you could upload a sample of your file somewhere that would be appreciated.
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Reverse Engineering the GoPro Cineform Codec(medium.com)
4 points by kierank 11y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 11y ago
It's actually good to have multiple independent implementations of a decoder to find inconsistencies and bugs. In fact Mozilla sponsored the work, and Google also did indirectly through GSoC.
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by kierank 11y ago
We use FFmpeg in our products (open-source and closed-source software) and so fixing on-air issues caused by FFmpeg was of the highest priority.
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by kierank 11y ago
Fixed in whatever git master was at the time and I believe they were backported to the latest maintenance version at the time.
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Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit(obe.tv)
103 points by kierank 11y ago|39 comments
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by kierank 11y ago
All this talk about TCP and HTTP streaming when they are actually trying to do low-latency UDP for broadcast production. (When you have a hammer (web technologies) everything looks like a nail I guess)
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by kierank 11y ago
That's not really true since the majority of pre-fork ffmpeg developers agreed to fork to libav. As I say to people this is like the Catholic/Protestant split, both sides think they are the one-true-ffmpeg but both have valid clai
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by kierank 11y ago
I won't take a position on this but the message you quote is a revised version that was put in place many years later after numerous user complaints about confusion.
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by kierank 11y ago
Not as bad as Lightworks which has been on its way to being open source for years.
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by kierank 11y ago
The number of people casually suggesting github for large binaries on HN is incredible and funny. They should try downloading something from github in Asia and they'll learn why local mirrors are useful.
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Faster 10-bit video conversions in FFmpeg(obe.tv)
2 points by kierank 11y ago|0 comments
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Why does Tonga steal the hostname “to”?
1 points by kierank 11y ago|1 comments
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by kierank 12y ago
It doesn't work currently on the rpi2 - there is at least one crash during install: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/8809 and https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/
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by kierank 12y ago
I think astrange knows what he's talking about considering he wrote chunks of those encoders and decoders.
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Popcorn Hour Revisited(hardwarebug.org)
1 points by kierank 12y ago|0 comments
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Distributed On-the-Fly Image Processing at Vimeo(hacks.mozilla.org)
7 points by kierank 12y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 12y ago
Web video is killing television...oh wait.
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Brute force thread debugging in FFmpeg(blogs.gnome.org)
3 points by kierank 13y ago|0 comments
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Two-day non-commercial workshop on software development for media/broadcast.(tech.ebu.ch)
1 points by kierank 13y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 13y ago
Why, sourceforge has excellent global mirrors.
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by kierank 13y ago
They are digital but most are far from tapeless.
143.
by kierank 13y ago
Same but css/javascript etc is hosted via Rackspace CDN (Akamai).
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by kierank 13y ago
nearlyfreespeech.net
145.
by kierank 13y ago
Because video codecs are written in C++ and Java?
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by kierank 13y ago
"An army marches on its stomach."
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Mystery Aircraft Parts and Atomic Clocks(blog.m0tei.co.uk)
195 points by kierank 13y ago|18 comments
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by kierank 14y ago
And x264 isnt tuned for this useccase Apart from the IPR issues please explain why you have come to this conclusion. x264 has excellent low latency encoding support.
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by kierank 14y ago
There would be nothing wrong apart from claiming technology as their own if they did this under the GPL2+ as well.
150.
by kierank 14y ago
They use x264 on near-default settings.

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