Re:oh yeah baby. this is the best comment i ever m (Score 1)

1. I don't know. All I know is that he has enough repute to be linked to on slashdot, which should mean something.

2. Yes. I spoke a little too quickly and it came out a little ambiguous. They optimized the decoder. It's possible that the optimizations, or even just a simple retargeted compile could cause difference in the raw output to the encoder. This would cause, of course, the output file to change. Same thing would be true if Tom was right and they actually had retargeted/optimized the encoder, which they didn't. Such an encoder could very well produce different output. So Tom's assertion that the output file would be "obviously" identical is clueless. Since Tom has said that the output files were identical, we can unsafely assume that the intel'ized decoders didn't actually cause any difference in the intermediate data. Of course, given his display of stupidity, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even do a checksum. I'm not an AVI expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if the filesizes came out identical due to padding or hard bitrate limits on the encoder. All issues which never appear to even have crossed his mind.

Or seem to be relevant to slashdot moderators.