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  • Multi-rate HEVC with x265 for adaptive HTTP streaming

    Originally posted on damienschroeder: Version 2.0 of x265 has recently been tagged. It has been more than two years of work since version 1.0. Since then, HEVC has become more visible with wide adoption on devices and in software. From a streaming perspective, adaptive HTTP streaming is now the most common streaming technology to watch…

  • Postgres troubles

    Originally posted on MetaBrainz Blog: (Regular readers of this blog, please ignore this post. We’re casting a wide net to try and find help for our problems.) Dear Postgres gurus: We at MusicBrainz have been very happy postgres users for over a decade now and Postgres is something that gives is very few headaches compared…

  • Comparison of open-source HEVC encoders

    Originally posted on damienschroeder: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is a quite recent video coding standard which has been ratified in 2013. It can achieve much better rate-distortion performance (and promises 50% bitrate reduction at same subjective video quality) than its predecessor H.264/AVC, which is the dominant video codec currently. However, this performance…

  • Reset the Net

    Reset the Net is happening today, the 5th of June 2014. It is a global day of action to make government surveillance on the Internet more difficult. It was instigated by the American organisation Fight for the Future, “a nonprofit advocacy group in the area of digital rights founded in 2011″ (see the Wikipedia article).…

  • Colgate: Liars!

    We are no fools, Colgate! – Stéphane Guillou 2014, CC-By-SA

  • Ubuntu for Phones + Fair Phone?

    This is an article I posted a while ago on my other blog. Now that goFLOSS! exists, it really belongs here, in an updated extended version! Days ago, Ubuntu for Phones was announced to the masses. If for some reason you dodged the constant flow of articles and videos about it, you can start from the official launch keynote in…

  • goFLOSS! – Yet another blog about Free, Libre and Open Source stuff

    Hello world! Welcome on my new blog! I will obviously be talking about the Open Source ecosystem and try to promote it as much as possible by writing about tips, news, tutorials and hopefully some philosophical nonsense too. I will probably be writing in English, as it is the de facto international language, and as…