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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by flyGuyOnTheSly on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:08PM (#17538489)
>There is a big upfront sacrifice to get the small video size.

Still, the benefit to the millions of people who might download and watch a video surely outweighs the cost of the one individual computer that spent 10x the amount of CPU cycles encoding it.

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Re:Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to ... by IntelMiner on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:02AM (#17539306)
Piracy "scenes" have an eternal pissing contest about being the "first" to release something. Bragging rights seem to trump quality, unfortunately
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