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> Here’s a denial from Musk.

Here's video of Musk performing his fascist salutes. He did it deliberately, he did it with gusto, he grunted with the effort, and he did it twice just to make sure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

There's no denying it.


What's the likelihood Dolby succeeds?

Facebook is an addiction for many people. Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook users are "dumb fucks":

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...


There's no point supporting these parasitic business models. Use royalty-free video and audio formats.

AV1 for video: https://aomedia.org/specifications/av1/

And Opus for audio: https://opus-codec.org/


AV1 / Opus where we can. But H264 is far better supported. For example, Safari doesn't include a software AV1 decoder. So AV1 videos only work in safari on M3 or later laptops, and iPhone 15 or later phones.

H264 is the compatibility king.

https://caniuse.com/av1


Safari, or better, macOS and iOS include a software AV1 decoder (libdav1d), but it's used only to decode avif, and to generate file previews in Finder.

Dolby just sued Snapchat over patents for using AV1:

https://www.techspot.com/news/111865-dolby-sues-snap-over-vi...


And that's when you know they're afraid. Dolby's case sounds like a desperate moonshot.

* VP9 where AV1 is not available (default YouTube codec, almost universally hardware-supported). Also universally supported .webm is vp9+opus - which mostly used as modern .gif

>And Opus for audio: https://opus-codec.org/

Just use AAC-LC, Redhat declares it patent expired and has the widest compatibility besides only mp3. At 192Kbps or above it is as good as Opus.


I was going to suggest you missed vorbis ogg. So I went looking for a link, I found out this:

> Since 2013, the Xiph.Org Foundation has stated that the use of Vorbis should be deprecated in favor of the Opus codec

I never heard of Opus, so some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)

From what I can find, seems opus only supports audio. ogg also has a video format (ogv), odd it is suggested ogg was superseded by opus. Maybe I am missing something ?


Ogg is a container format. It contains audio and video tracks: https://www.xiph.org/ogg/

It's like Matroska: https://www.matroska.org/what_is_matroska.html

Or MP4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4_file_format


Ogg is the container, Vorbis is the audio codec, and colloquially people just called Vorbis-encoded audio "ogg" because of the ogg container.

Vorbis was hit-or-miss. In some cases it did better on same or lower bitrate than MP3 encoded by LAME, in some cases worse. It also suffered an entirely new category of "chirpy/tweety" artefacts similar to what MP3 exhibits at very low bitrates, but with Vorbis they showed up even at nominal bitrates during certain complex spectral patterns. I was a vocal proponent of Vorbis back when it surfaced, but soon changed stance when realizing how unreliable it was quality-wise.


> and colloquially people just called Vorbis-encoded audio "ogg" because of the ogg container.

I would bet that the primary reason wasn't the container format, which nobody really cares about and most users wouldn't have been aware of, but rather the fact that the file extension was '.ogg'.


Kinda happens everywhere. "I'll send it to you as an MP4" versus "I'll send it to you as an h264+aac"

That is what I meant.

AV1 lacks hw support…

VP9 works well too and more supported (default YouTube codec)

My laptop has hardware AV1 encoding and decoding. My TV has AV1 decoding. My phone has AV1 decoding. None of these devices are particularly new.

And don't underestimate dav1d (https://www.videolan.org/projects/dav1d.html). You can comfortably play AV1 video in software on your phone. Try it with VLC.


> You can comfortably play AV1 video in software on your phone

Maybe for about 15 minutes before your battery is drained to 20%. I'm not aware of any software video decoder at all that won't unacceptably heat up your phone and kill your battery.


You really are underestimating just how far e.g. Apple's mobile CPUs have come in terms of raw performance and power-efficiency.

Why say maybe? Why not simply try it for yourself?

I don't need to try it myself to know that software video decoding on the CPU is not a viable solution on mobile phones.

Of course it is. Even the iPhone 7 from 2016 can play 1080p AV1 video.

Why did you spend all that money on your phone if you're not going to exercise the hardware?


Not OP, but 2hr battery time for video playback vs 20hr would be the entire point of this thread. HW decoding is an order of magnitude more efficient.

That isn't the benchmark set by petcat. petcat's goal post is 15 minutes to 20% battery with AV1 playback.

It's baffling that petcat won't simply try it. Maybe he has awkwardly discovered he does have hardware AV1 support after all.

I've still got my old iPhone 7. I'll dust it off and do the experiment. I think it'll do at least 90 minutes in VLC.


Software video decoding on a CPU is woefully inefficient and will drain your battery. Full stop.

> I've still got my old iPhone 7. I'll dust it off and do the experiment. I think it'll do at least 90 minutes in VLC.

Your "old iPhone 7" probably wont even boot up now, let alone play 1080p AV1 video for more than 5 minutes. Go ahead, try it.


> Your "old iPhone 7" probably wont even boot up now, let alone play 1080p AV1 video for more than 5 minutes.

None of your predictions came true. In fact, you were more than 24 times wrong about it.

My 10-year-old iPhone 7 with its 10-year-old battery and a small crack in the screen, hardware which was released before AV1 was released, did boot up. I charged it to 99%.

I downloaded a 4 minute music video. It's 1080p25 1609kbps AV1 video, 48khz 122kbps stereo Opus audio in an MP4 container.

Using VLC 3.7.2 (which uses dav1d for decoding AV1), I played the video continuously on repeat. It took 122 minutes for the battery to go from 99% to 20%. At 20% the phone switched to low power mode and kept playing the video.

I should have put it in low power mode the whole time. I'll try that next to see if it can go longer.

In the meantime, what we can conclude is that the iPhone 7 is mighty.

dav1d, most especially, is mighty.

petcat isn't.


Low power mode did indeed make a difference.

I charged to 100%, put the phone in low power mode, and ran the same test.

This time it took 200 minutes to go from 100% to 20% battery.


It's coming along nicely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware_encoding_and_deco...

Also decoding on a reasonably powerful (non-accelerated) cpu is fast enough for 1080p, not ideal for battery life but still.


“Access Advance and Avanci have published rates for a pool asserting content royalties across AVC, HEVC, VP9, VVC, and AV1 that could push major platforms toward nine-figure annual exposure.”

Yes, they've made claims on AV1, claims that have never been tested in court.

You need to understand that these are parasitic businesses. They didn't develop AV1. They didn't contribute to AV1. But they will make any claim they think they can get away with.

Show me the court case they've won that validates their claims on AV1.


AV1 was created by a consortium of some of the biggest tech companies in the world, and "all technology was vetted in a rigorous patent review process before being integrated into the final spec."[0]

On the other side, you've got patent trolls who are upset that their shitty business model is coming to an end. They're just being loud as they're losing.

[0] https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...


Looks like this is the court case to keep an eye on: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-fr...

> The Apollo program was the triple-back-handspring exclamation mark on a century of American technological transformations, during which Americans had electrified their cities, filled their streets with cars and their skies with airplanes, split atoms, and invented digital computers.

And look at America now. Erratic, belligerent, applying tariffs on a whim, threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, threatening to leave NATO, alienating itself from allies.

Don't underestimate the reputational damage America has done and is still doing to itself.


During the Apollo missions, the US was melting babies in Vietnam, amongst other war crimes.

Young men were being drafted, taken from home, and forced to kill people across the world.

African Americans were fighting for basic rights and equality.

A President, a major Presidential candidate, and the most prominent civil rights leader were all assassinated.

It’s not like Apollo was happening during the golden age of America or something…

If you actually do appreciate Apollo, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to appreciate Artemis.



An absolute classic.

Don't forget blowing up boats we think might be drugs and then purposely killing the survivors on the orders of the self-proclaimed US Secretary of War. "no quarter, no mercy"

> "no quarter, no mercy"

Which is exactly how him and his friends should be dealt with by the courts.


> i disagree. unless intuit is also rewriting quickbooks, dassault systèmes is rewriting solidworks, every bank is rewriting their custom windows-only software, every government branch is rewriting their custom windows-only software

Up front they won't need to do a full rewrite. They'll only need to make it work well enough under Wine.

At a source level, tools like Avalonia's xpf make porting WPF apps to other platforms easier:

https://avaloniaui.net/xpf


of the stupid enterprise-y software like quickbooks, solidworks and other proprietary stuff that i have used, they barely work well enough under native windows. not to mention, even sticking them in a windows VM voids any support contracts.

> Iran should have just shot israel with all its missiles (select and focus)

Iran has deliberately escalated the war horizontally to create a bigger mess and to make the military adventure more expensive for America and the world.

Iran is saying, "If you attack us, these are the costs."

As an invading military, you're either willing to pay those costs or you're not.


> Musk has said he will soon turn millions of Tesla cars already on the road into taxis that their owners can rent out when they are not using them.

That's the same lie he told in 2019:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

> Tesla is trying to convince investors that the future of the company lies less in selling cars

It clearly lies in more lying.


Probably best off using a UI library like Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/

It satisfies the requirement to "make easy things easy, make hard things doable" and it also gets you cross platform support.



The casting looks great. I am looking forward to this.


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