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Fabio Sonnati
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Fabio Sonnati writes Video Encoding & Streaming Technologies, a personal blog at sonnati.wordpress.com about systems and data. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Does VP9 deserve attention?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked comment explains how lossy video codecs use key frames and i-frames and does not discuss the post. The linked post's topic is approximating images with Voronoi diagrams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fabio Sonnati on video delivery and encoding
Most-linked posts?
- Does VP9 deserve attention?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
What Hacker News says?
Lossy video compression currently does that - it creates key frames at regular intervals and all the frames between (i-frames) are based on the previous key frame. Some codecs have i-frames depend on multiple previous frames. E.g. a 320x240 video has 3 seconds at 25fps, i.e. 75 frames and key frames are created each second. Frame sizes will then be something like: 20kB 2kB 3kB 1kB 2kB [20 more frames] 22kB 2kB 1kB 2…
Comment linking /2010/10/19/h-264-for-image-compression/
on “Approximating images with Voronoi diagrams”Submitted H265: Technical Overview as a story · 197 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celebrating 20 Years of H.264: the foundation of modern Internet Streaming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FCS and RTMP: Streaming Technologies from the Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does VP9 deserve attention? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does VP9 Deserve Attention – Part II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted H265 – part II: Considerations on quality and “state-of-the-art” as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
