gribbly's comments

>We're probably not going to see AV1 implementations on the same level as x264 for at least a few years.

True, on that note, over at the Doom9 forums, the x265 spokesperson there said that they will consider making a AV1 encoder should there be a market.

Given the massive amount of support gathered for AV1 from web and hardware giants, and how it's a royalty free codec and thus in a great position to be the next generation 'de facto' video standard on the web, I'd wager there is a good market for a third party encoder from excellent developers like those behind x265.

>the Amiga 500 was probably the last great value product Commodore ever shipped

Agreed, the Amiga 1200 was too little too late, I remember when I first tried programming on the PC coming from Amiga, segmented memory and 16 colors, I thought no way am I ever gonna use this!

Next time I gave it a try there were dos extenders giving you a flat memory model as well as vga 256 color mode-x where each byte corresponded to a pixel on screen, which performed so much faster than the Amiga's blitter with bitplanes that it was suddenly very clear that it was all over for Commodore.

Interesting stuff, although not a fan of the lossy recompressing, there are good open source lossless jpeg compressors like packjpg, lepton, giving ~22% compression, and a yet to be released one from the guy who made webp/brotli.

I can understand why someone does not like GPL, but calling a license which says you have to pass on the same rights you were given a 'fascist' license makes absolutely zero sense.

>He was charged with rape and molestation.

No, he has never been charged, he is wanted for questioning regarding an accusation of rape. Funny is that he was already questioned for that exact accusation BEFORE he left Sweden, then he was told to return for further questioning.

Also the first prosecutor immediately dropped it, then another prosecutor decided to re-open it, which is very unusual.

As for the actual rape accusation: first they had sex, then the woman says she fell asleep and awoke from him entering her, she asked if he was wearing anything (protection) and he said 'only you'. She stated that she was too tired to argue so they had sex.

Next day they joked about him having to pay her student loans should she get pregnant, and naming the kid 'Afghanistan'. He was to go on a meeting in Stockholm so she gave him a ride down to the train station on her bike, and then paid his ticket since he didn't have any swedish currency. Later after talking with friends, she realized that she had been subjected to a crime and went to the police station.

This is the actual rape allegation (in swedish): https://info.publicintelligence.net/AssangeSexAllegations.pd...

>That was a headline written by the journalist, and not a statement she actually made.

Well, she said the heading wasn't an exact quote, but also not a misrepresentation. From an interview in 2016 she admits that while the headline was 'click-baity' it was not unreasonable given what she had said in the interview, also stating:

'My colleagues were upset over it being a misquote, but that was not really the case.'

Ahh, I had forgotten about that, that was so unexpected to be almost surreal.

Also the statement by Ines Uusmann (swedish minister of communications at the time) that 'internet is just a fad' is another 'classic' in swedish politics.

>HEVC is actually a standard, and has been for many years.

Once the AV1 bitstream is frozen, it will also be a 'standard', only this will be royalty free.

>there are Open Sources like x265, and many other commercial solution as well.

Nothing prevents x265 devs from making xAV1 (or whatever AV1 will end up being called), their spokesperson over at Doom9 has already said that they will go where the market goes in terms of encoder development, they are also very pissed in regards to the HEVC licensing debacle.

>we shall wait and see when it finalized.

Indeed, the bitstream is (supposed) to be finalized this month, after that happens we will finally see optimization take place (basically rewriting all hot spots into handwritten assembly) and thus be able to assess the quality claims and just how much slower it will be.

>Well that is only half correct because Netflix are already encoding in HEVC.

Netflix was one of the first companies to join AOM to develop a royalty free codec, it seems clear their intentions is to replace HEVC with AV1 once wide hardware support arrives.

>There are zero Full hardware AV1 decoder

There can't be until the bitstream has been frozen, from what I've read the first hardware supporting AV1 will be 12-18 months after said bitstream freeze.

Throughout the development of AV1, there's been constant consulting with hardware developers and they have had a large say in how AV1 works, the hardware companies that are part of AOM are:

Intel, AMD, ARM, Broadcom, NVidia, Realtek and now recently Apple

>So apart from being royalty free, AV1 doesn't have a lot of advantage to it.

If the estimates are correct, ~30% better compression is a HUGE advantage, another advantage from the point of the companies in AOM is that developing a codec themselves means it will fulfill their needs much better.

Google was going this route ever since they purchased On2, but now it really has reached critical mass with their third generation codec (VP10) being the base for AV1 which has made practically all the big tech companies come together and solve their codec needs using it.

>Apple joining on board, with No Press Release from AOM

I think Apple didn't want to ruffle any feathers with MPEGLA and the other HEVC licensees, Apple picking up HEVC support across their products was seen as a good sign for HEVC, the same Apple joining all the other tech giants in AOM backing AV1 is quite the opposite. Thus they join with no fanfare. Pure speculation of course.

But why would they join if they're not going to support (as in use) the codec ?

They joined AOM at the highest level, which means they get a seat on the board of directors, I can't see any reason why they would do this unless they have decided to use it on their products.

Until the bitstream is frozen, there is basically zero work on optimization.

True, but Netflix is one of the founding members of AV1, which is what they want to replace HEVC with.

They joined AOM as a top level (governing) member, why on earth would they do that unless they are going to support the codec on their software/hardware ?

They won't remove support for HEVC/HEIF for quite some time, but they will support AV1 alongside them, why else would they join AOM at the top level (governing member) ?

This means AV1 will be the de facto next generation codec standard on the web as it will be supported by all browsers and all mobile devices, something HEVC never will.

>The subject of the article was the "fight for patent-unencumbered media codecs is almost won". To "win" that fight means that content providers can abandon patent protected formats.

Eventually they will, the only missing piece for AV1 to become the de facto successor to h264 was Apple, with them onboard AV1 will cover all of web and mobile. I mean look at the companies behind AV1:

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM, NVidia, Broadcom, and that's about HALF the list.

>In the case of HEVC, which is a joint effort by the ITU and ISO, it’s a straightforward exchange of technology for money.

Have you been living in a cave for last year ? HEVC licensing is an absolute mess with at least 3 different entities with which you have to settle licensing terms.

>and in both cases the consortium members expect some return on their investment.

The return on investment here is saving the cost of royalties and being in control of the development of the codec which will only become increasingly important in your business.

>Is this model better?

I don't understand your logic, Facebook/Google is data mining your personal information with or without royalty free codecs.

The reason all these companies are banding together to create a royalty free codec is because all of them realize that online video will only become even more pervasive, and as such there is long term gain for them by getting rid of video royalties for good, and the HEVC licensing debacle must have eliminated any trace of doubt.

>The relevance is that a compiler running in 90's hardware is able to beat Go's compilation speeds of 2017

And beat 99% of other compilers today, meaning that overall compiler complexity has grown.

>If you want the 2017 version of it, it is called Delphi.

Ok, this is something actually relevant.

>Go's compilation speed only surprises those developers that never used anything else beyond C and C++.

For me (tm), Go compilation speed has compared equal or favorably against C, C++, Java, C#, Rust at least.

>Turbo Pascal compilation speed, in MS-DOS, using 90’s hardware was already faster than Go.

What relevance does this have on the compiler landscape today ?

If you have to use a compiler from ~30 years ago to find a comparison supporting your claim, it sounds very much like Go is indeed much faster than what it competes against today.

You're welcome, and huge thanks for WebP.

PIK had flown under my radar, looks really interesting. Any estimate of when a first release will be out ?

Personally I'm not impressed with the quality of the lossy encoding, it's not enough of a improvement on JPEG to make it worthwhile, for lossless however it's the best format I know of right now, compresses MUCH better than PNG, and both compression and decompression is MUCH faster.

FLIF compresses better than webp, but it also compresses/decompresses more slowly, and the difference in size is quite small so overall for lossless compression, WebP is my choice.