Comment Re:question objectivity (Score 1) 497
Has an intermediate species ever been found?
What the hell is an "intermediate species"? Just out of interest?
Has an intermediate species ever been found?
What the hell is an "intermediate species"? Just out of interest?
it's possible that the situation has improved
It has.
There are implementations of both available.
There are various incomplete reference encoders for both, but I'm not aware of a single non-alpha and complete implementation of either. vpxenc is close but lacks things like multi-threaded encoding, which will obviously have an impact on encoding speed.
If you know anyone who cannot legally play an MP4 video, I would like to meet them.
I've got a better question for you: why are there still people who are unable to open and play back a WebM video? What's the driver behind not including WebM support in the handful of OSes & devices that have refused so far? It isn't technical. It certainly isn't a cost issue. It surely can't be licensing. So that only leaves, what, ideology?
Are Apple & Microsoft going to continue to make their users lives more difficult because of their own ideology? Why are they doing that?
the terribly performing FLOSS codec of the day
I'm not sure which codec you're referring too, so I can't answer you there.
I guess my optimism is based on WebM being an open format, thus allowing anyone to implement it on any future platform. Unlike various proprietary formats, that won't. I mean, does your 'phone support Intel Indeo or RealPlayer G2?
VP9 doesn't even match h.264, let alone h.265
That's really odd, because the benchmarks I've seen show VP8 & h264 to be evenly matched, and no one has produced a finished h.265 or VP9 codec, so I do wonder how you think you've seen those two codecs fairly benchmarked?
I love writing code and working on hard problems, but do I feel like working on them for 80 hours a week, every week? No, I enjoy having a life outside of work and a separation of work and home life is necessary.
So much this. I enjoy solving difficult problems, but I also enjoy a not using a computer.
Nor do I currently have any active open source projects on my Github account; because you know, I spent over ten years working on Syllable and frankly that was more than most people do in a lifetime, so I'm O.K with that.
Happily the sorts of companies I work for are O.K with that too, and prefer to judge me on my experience and work I produce professionally, rather than an irrelevant body of work that I produced in my spare time.
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