On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 13:25, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
This is windows-only right now (presumably because
Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs).
Er, what? Where did that presumption come from?
Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video
a) VLC, when _not_ using the GPU, doesn’t struggle
remotely as much as Flash
b) VLC also overlays text and graphics over video
Again using the GPU for compositing.
c) YV12-RGB _can_ be tightly optimised if you’re
crazy enough to do
things that way around
The key there is that the
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 13:19, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
a) VLC, when _not_ using the GPU, doesn’t struggle
remotely as much as Flash
b) VLC also overlays text and graphics over video
Again using the GPU for compositing.
On which platforms? As I said, I’m not talking about
On which platforms? As I said, I’m not talking about
Windows *at all* here.
It uses an appropriate renderer for the platform, which by default would be GPU
accelerated. (I don't feel like looking up the names for each one right now
though...)
…yes. It does it backwards. Given a focus on
--- On Wed, 30/12/09, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Why the Flash iPlayer client can't use the
hardware acceleration. I get lots of dropped frames
watching through the iPlayer Desktop.
The new Flash 10.1 beta uses DXVA (DirectX Hardware Video Acceleration).
However it has
A tv is box of electronics that is going to the Council dump today -
replaced by an iMac and a Freeview dongle (with two UHF tuners).
TV and Radio are broadcast media. They exist inside a regulatory
framework, and date back to the work of Marconi, Tesla, Hertz and others.
Amateur radio
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:11, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote:
This is windows-only right now (presumably because Apple won't give Adobe
access to the necessary APIs).
Er, what? Where did that presumption come from?
Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video
This is windows-only right now (presumably because
Apple won't give Adobe access to the necessary APIs).
Er, what? Where did that presumption come from?
Nothing else on the Mac or Linux has a problem with video
compositing.
VLC, which does it entirely in software too, has _no_
issues.
Enjoying the thread!
TV is a dinosaur sleepwalking off a cliff. - classic.
TV is a cool medium. The whole world is fascinated with what's on TV -
makes up a lot of what people do, say and think about all the time.
Still, don't you think that the medium of the Internet - Interactive
and instant
2009/12/30 Matt Barber m...@progressive.org.uk
Originally
black and white, delivered over huge sets with a lower resolution. Now
we have impressive looking glass things on the wall serving up really
good pictures over a digital medium.
Interestingly 405-line and 625-line TV were described
I don't know what's next for TV (anyone's guess is as good as mine)
but I can have some fun imagining it too.
I hear BBC one HD and BBC TWO HD are on the cards...
Now HD is an interesting one, but I don't think my laptop or Broadband
bandwidth will like that, I take my TV thru Live
I use get_iplayer to get the HD content from the BBC, this means my Windows
7 machine will use the hardware decoder on the video card, this gives the
best possible quality and no dropped frames.
Why the Flash iPlayer client can't use the hardware acceleration. I get
lots of dropped frames
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 19:17, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Why the Flash iPlayer client can't use the hardware acceleration. I get
lots of dropped frames watching through the iPlayer Desktop.
Flash’s abysmal video decoder is a longstanding bone of contention
amongst those
endless remakes of Emma?
haven't had one for well over a decade,
eventually the men in white vans do stop coming
well almost
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Not definitional but:
TV is a large international engineering, entertainment, and journalism
complex with a contiguous attitude toward it's 'audience' and in most
cases, it's 'customers/clients' (aka advertisers). It is a culture
under threat, and reacting to that threat with several
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Another way of looking at TV is that is the delivery of audio visual
services using high capacity omnidirectional technology.
I think you mean broadcast.
Clearly, in 1980, you absolutely cannot do 'video on demand' for everyone.
The playback technology diddn't
From the International Telecommunications Union Radio Regulations:
Television: A form of telecommunication for the transmission of
transient images of fixed or moving objects.
(where 'telecommunication' is defined in the annex to the Constitution
of the International Telecommunication Union as:
Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing
better to to do instead?
(okay, 'Thick of it' is alright...)
R
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Dominic Smith d...@domsmith.co.uk wrote:
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Subject: Re: [backstage] What is TV
Rain wrote:
Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing
better to to do instead?
Oh, I know, I know! Is it: debate the meaning of 'TV'?
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That's what people who haven't bought a computer yet do, isn't it pops?
Where people wait to be provided what's given? Don't they use a tube or
something?
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Discuss.
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On 14-Dec-2009, at 21:24, Brian Butterworth wrote:
That's what people who haven't bought a computer yet do, isn't it pops?
Where people wait to be provided what's given? Don't they use a tube or
something?
That’s “a TV”, the device. what is “TV” the medium?
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Discuss.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TV
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On 14-Dec-2009, at 21:24, Brian Butterworth wrote:
That's what people who haven't bought a computer yet do, isn't it pops?
Where people wait to be provided what's given? Don't they use a tube or
something?
That’s “a TV”, the device. what is “TV”
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures, where you can have a
large number of people over a significant distance watching one event.
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Ian Stirling wrote:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures, where you can have a
large number of people over a significant distance watching one event.
Or to be more accurate, simultanenous reception of a television program
service licenced under
Another way of looking at TV is that is the delivery of audio visual
services using high capacity omnidirectional technology.
2009/12/15 Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com
Ian Stirling wrote:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures, where you
Compare the other international networks:
- Internet - peer-to-peer, mixed bandwidth, interactive
- PSTN* - one-to-one, fixed 64kbps bandwidth, switched
- TV - omnidirectional, high bandwidth, broadcast
- radio - omnidirectional, low bandwidth, broadcast
And these depreciated networks:
- telex
2009/12/15 Ian Stirling backstage...@mauve.plus.com:
Mo McRoberts wrote:
Discuss.
TV is live simultaneous transmission of pictures,
I'm not sure live transmission is definitional; most TV isn't live,
although it started off that way AIUI.
where you can have a large
number of people over a
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