Hacker News with Generative AI: Video Encoding

Effective Fuzzing: A Dav1d Case Study (blogspot.com)
Late in 2023, while working on a 20% project with Project Zero, I found an integer overflow in the dav1d AV1 video decoder.

Security, Software, Video Encoding, Case Studies

14 points by belter 35 days ago | 0 comments

Porting C to Rust for a Fast and Safe AV1 Media Decoder (memorysafety.org)
AV1 is an increasingly important video format and it needs a memory safe, high performance decoder. We worked with the team at Immunant to develop rav1d, a Rust-based port of dav1d, a C decoder. This is the first of two blog posts about how the team approached this effort.

Rust, C, Video Encoding, Software Development, Open Source

67 points by steveklabnik 73 days ago | 21 comments

FFmpeg's VVC decoder is no longer experimental (videolan.org)
This reverts commit [110d8549d575aae6b2f627cd63e2eb7082ab8926](/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=object;h=110d8549d575aae6b2f627cd63e2eb7082ab8926).

Video Encoding, FFmpeg, Software

21 points by mfiguiere 76 days ago | 1 comments

Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project (phoronix.com)

Intel, Open Source, Video Encoding, Hardware, H.265/HEVC

49 points by mfiguiere 92 days ago | 15 comments

Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit (obsproject.com)

Video Editing, Programming, Open Source, Video Encoding

94 points by skrrtww 131 days ago | 28 comments

We increased our video rendering speeds by 70x using the WebCodecs API (re.video)

Web Development, Performance Optimization, Video Encoding, WebCodecs API

5 points by justusm 135 days ago | 0 comments

Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding (theverge.com)

Netflix, Video Encoding, Streaming

127 points by marban 151 days ago | 141 comments

SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder (gitlab.com)

Video Encoding, Open Source, Software

37 points by skilled 165 days ago | 18 comments

VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding (research.google)