@SwiftOnSecurity I met my wife in a media systems class in college, I think because of shared terror.

@SwiftOnSecurity oh, coding tree blocks are really cool! (my level of video encoding knowledge dates to about MPEG 2)

@SwiftOnSecurity like encryption, I prefer leaving it for my betters. Unlike encryption, where I'm confident, if not competent, I'm neither with video.

@SwiftOnSecurity It's DCTs all the way down

@SwiftOnSecurity I was really struggling till I got to the squiggly lines then it was all ok.

@SwiftOnSecurity hah I've been there

@SwiftOnSecurity The pixel knows where it is by knowing where it isn’t

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Video encoding is yet another example of an attempt to create the "one true file format to rule them all...but be flexible...and self-descriptive...all at once"

Someday you should look at nautical charts and the layer upon layer of utterly insane abstractions and "one true formats" (ISO 8211, IHO S57&S58, etc.)

Bugfests, all of them

I have always low-key wondered if such fustercluck standards could be used as attack vectors against the world's oceangoing vessels (shudder!)

@SwiftOnSecurity What part wasn't clear??

@SwiftOnSecurity i had to implement this YEARS ago on a new modulation for DOCSIS cable system modulation. Fun!

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I feel like I won't understand anything from this thread until I try to write a Verilog module for it.

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Having worked a bit with encoding/decoding I think ffmpeg is probably the best open source software project out there.
There are so many edge cases in codecs yet ffmpeg has never failed me. It's a miracle it works at all, but actually works so well.

@SwiftOnSecurity ironic I'm reading this while writing ingest code.