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Open Broadcast Systems
Company blog · obe.tv/about-us/obe-blog · on HN as kierankprogramminghardware
Open Broadcast Systems is the company blog at obe.tv, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How to Lie about Latency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post, titled 'How to lie about latency', which covers how live-streaming latency figures can be misrepresented. The comments only share the link and cite it in passing, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Lie about Latency3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
- Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-05
- A Look at the BBC UHD Encoder in 20182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-16
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a blog post about how numbers like "30ms latency" are thrown around called "How to lie about latency": https://www.obe.tv/how-to-lie-about-latency/ It's left as an exercise to the reader which methods of lying are being used in this case.
Comment linking /how-to-lie-about-latency/
on “Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust”Submitted Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit as a story · 103 points
HN discussionhttps://www.obe.tv/how-to-lie-about-latency/
Comment linking /how-to-lie-about-latency/
on “Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency”Submitted AVX-512, what’s useful for us as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThere are a number of features that make AV1 structurally more suited to real-time implementations than its predecessor, VP9. For example, it does adaptive entropy coding instead of explicitly coding probabilities in the header. That means that you don't need to choose between making multiple passes over the frame (one to count symbol occurrences and one to write the bitstream using R-D optimal probabilities) or enc…
Comment linking /about-us/obe-blog/item/54-a-look-at-the-bbc-uhd-encoder-in-2018
on “Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe”Submitted A Look at the BBC UHD Encoder in 2018 as a story · 36 points
HN discussionA small part of the end-to-end process https://www.obe.tv/how-to-lie-about-latency/ Bandwidth is cheap -- basically free, especially at this bitrate.
Comment linking /how-to-lie-about-latency/
on “FFmpeg 8.1”Submitted How to Lie about Latency as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- ux · 2017-06-28
Submitted Optimising and Modernising FFmpeg’s IDCT – Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussion Submitted Improving the boot times of servers with a custom coreboot BIOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating mundane things in a startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unified unit testing of physical and IP video interfaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster 10-bit video conversions in FFmpeg as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility between our SRT implementation and libsrt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a good professional video capture/playback card? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimising and Modernising FFmpeg’s IDCT – Part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion