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Re:Bitcodin (YC S15) encodes video 100x faster, in Netflix-g... by markwaldron on Thursday August 06, 2015 @08:41PM (#10020376)
It sounds great and all, but what is your Weissman score?
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Re:Bitcodin (YC S15) encodes video 100x faster, in Netflix-g... by schellkenig on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:40PM (#10020516)
As far as I know the weissman score is for lossless compression and our compression is lossy. But we could compare it to, e.g., x264 running on a single server and calculate a weissman score, but more or less it is then just a speed comparison ;) and in that case we are way faster/better.
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Re:Bitcodin (YC S15) encodes video 100x faster, in Netflix-g... by largote on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:40PM (#10020513)
And can they handle 3D video files? Everyone knows 3D is the future!
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