Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 168
It will be when the patents expire. That is, unless patent duration goes the same way as copyright...
New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance 168
An anonymous reader writes "Google released a new version of the VP8 codec SDK on Thursday. They note a number of performance improvements over the launch release including 20-40% (average 28%) improvement in libvpx decoder speed, an over 7% overall PSNR improvement (6.3% SSIM) in VP8 'best' quality encoding mode, and up to 60% improvement on very noisy, still or slow moving source video. In other WebM news, Texas Instruments has a demo of 1080p WebM video playing on their new TI OMAP 4 processor, in both Android and Ubuntu."
Comment Re:Video card recommendations? (Score 3, Informative) 245
ATI HD5770 or nVidia GTX260 or GTX460. If you want to be able to use the latest in OpenGL 4.x and OpenCL, you'll want to go with ATI HD5770 or GTX460.
This reply post contains many errors and is not at all informative. The grandparent asked for video cards that work well with open source 2D/3D drivers, the ATI card he cites only has experimental support only, and will probably not be functionnal for a while, and those 2 nVidia cards he cites have no working 3D driver AT ALL. Please mod that post down to the basement.
The correct answer to his question is:
buy an ATI Radeon X1900 or less video card, I suggest the X1650. These cards have good open source 2D/3D drivers, where released within the last 5 years and can run the applications you mentioned. Anyting more recent would probably be less stable, but will improve over time, and Intel does not build "video cards".
Comment Re:All cars already have this system (Score 1) 690
On some cars, if you turn off the ignition, you lose power steering AND brakes!
BTW, if your car can do 0-60mph in 2sec, you really need to think about removing that rocket from your trunk.
Comment Re: Its not really that clear (Score 1) 256
running:
sed 's/ Abrahamic//;s/ actually//;s/ morally.*/./'
on:
All Abrahamic religions are actually bogus morally when you look at them. It seems on the surface as if they have
...
returns:
All religions are bogus.
Just thought I'd share that with my fellow junior-level, non sed speeking, nerds.
Comment Re:Theora still lacks good creation software (Score 1) 339
The best/most user freindly way to use ffmpeg under Windows is to install "ffdshow" (Windows version of ffmpeg) and VirtualDub (GUI encoding software). Both can be downloaded and installed simply.
