Hacker News with Generative AI: Video Encoding

Closing the Chapter on OpenH264 (bbhtt.space)
People might have noticed me talking about dropping OpenH264 from Freedesktop SDK.
Firefox 137 Beta Now Available with VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC on Linux (phoronix.com)
With Firefox 136 released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase.
Video encoding requires using your eyes (redvice.org)
Netflix wrote a post on their engineering blog about a “deep downscaler” for video, and unfortunately it’s rife with issues. I originally saw the post due to someone citing it, and was incredibly disappointed when I clicked through and read it. Hopefully this post offers a counter to that!
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.
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.
FFmpeg's VVC decoder is no longer experimental (videolan.org)
This reverts commit [110d8549d575aae6b2f627cd63e2eb7082ab8926](/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=object;h=110d8549d575aae6b2f627cd63e2eb7082ab8926).
Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project (phoronix.com)
Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit (obsproject.com)
We increased our video rendering speeds by 70x using the WebCodecs API (re.video)
Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding (theverge.com)
SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder (gitlab.com)
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding (research.google)
Minimalist Guide to AV1 Video Encoding (marksblogg.com)