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xiphmont.livejournal.com is a personal blog at xiphmont.livejournal.com about systems and hardware. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Monty Montgomery's Xiph.org LiveJournal posts on video codecs, including his 'we lost' post on H.264 versus VP8 and WebM, and his write-ups on Daala and Opus.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.2645 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-10-30
- Companies comming together on open media formats3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-02
- Ogg and WebM technical alert: default FFmpeg Vorbis encoder is broken2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-25
What Hacker News says?
Some related comments: https://xiphmont.livejournal.com/63490.html
Comment linking /63490.html
on “24/192 music downloads are silly”Submitted Oh right, about those LEDs as a story · 407 points
HN discussionAny method that makes axis-aligned subdivisions (which includes both standard median cut and octree), even in a space like HSV, is going to be pretty suboptimal. There's probably been more sophisticated things done since I looked at this in the 1990's, but Xiaolin Wu's 1992 approach [1] works quite a bit better than both (including the 1991 Wu v2 implementation of an octree method linked elsewhere in this thread). I…
Comment linking /35634.html
on “High quality GIF with FFmpeg”Submitted Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 as a story · 182 points
HN discussionSee: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html H.264 already won over VP8. The battlefield now is now is going to be on the next generation of codecs (or even two ahead), and Mozilla puts their forces behind Daala.
Comment linking /61927.html
on “Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack”Submitted A Competing HEVC Licensing Pool as a story · 80 points
HN discussionHere's Monty's "we lost" announcement: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html Which goes into some of the details of the fight for a free web.
Comment linking /61927.html
on “Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack”Submitted A ThinkPad supervisor password crack as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAre you referring to this? http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html
Comment linking /61927.html
on “Firefox 26 is released”Submitted Monty: And where did VP8/9 go wrong? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's a "move" but not a solution. Just a temporary workaround. The solution is work on Daala. See http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html
Comment linking /61927.html
on “Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future”Submitted Ogg and WebM technical alert: default FFmpeg Vorbis encoder is broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor the reference: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html And an interesting part: http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-remov...
Comment linking /61927.html
on “Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future”Submitted Companies comming together on open media formats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTo be fair, it seems you were technically correct (the best kind!) and the website messaging is slightly confusing. According to xiphmont the main point of this particular group is for sharing IP investigation, and the development output of the members will be directed towards NetVC effort in the IETF. So a codec will be produced, and by these same people, but wearing different hats. http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/…
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on “Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video”Submitted Next-Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRegarding the video codec, it's the same thing, except one in IETF is the actual engineering group, and that AOM is more of an administrative one that synchronizes all the bureaucratic stuff probably (legal as well I guess). UPDATE: See here: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/67752.html
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on “What the new video compression strategy from Netflix means for Apple and Amazon”Submitted Ogg creator Monty Montgomery: "I, for one, welcome our new WebM overlords" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRead the linked article: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/59893.html to see how exactly Google has won.
Comment linking /59893.html
on “Google called the MPEG-LA's bluff, and won”Supposedly offering OpenH264 ended up costing Cisco more money in licensing fees. See Monty Montgomery's blog post from 2013 about the initial announcement of OpenH264: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html There are a couple of comments in the comments section titled "Cisco's Costs" in which Monty says that someone he knew at Cisco told him that they had been under the licensing cap and that the OpenH264 proje…
Comment linking /61927.html
on “H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50”Interesting bit of context from his blog post that introduces this document: "Even better... while I was documenting TF for posterity, I spotted a possible improvement. So, I've tossed in documentation of a brand new technique as well!" and "I literally discovered the second stage while writing the demo page about the 'regular' TF we used in Opus. Working two-stage TF is about six days old." http://xiphmont.livejour…
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on “Introducing Daala part 3: Time/Frequency Resolution Switching”They're very happy: I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW WEBM OVERLORDS : http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/50239.html and more officially, Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project : http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/2010/05/20/ It's worth bearing in mind that Monty created Vorbis, as used for audio for WebM, but Theora was donated from On2's VP3 so there may be less sense of ownership. Plus their basic mission…
Comment linking /2010/05/20/
on “Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8”If you use ffmpeg to encode WebM streams, make sure you replace the default Vorbis encoder with a usable one: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/51160.html
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on “FFMPEG 0.6 "Works with HTML5" released”
