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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? – March 2019 by myth2018 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @01:25PM (#19381077)
After some months of research and some trial and error I finally managed to create videos programatically using libav.

Nothing innovative, and I don't know how to write about it to make it feel exciting. Although I feel excited for working on this.

It was an important step towards some more noble goals, like creating animated content for visualization of time series and "procedural videos" -- I'm not a native english speaker and I don't know if this is the correct translation. I mean "procedural" in the same sense of "procedural games", but with videos instead of games. Googling for "procedural videos" returns a lot of medical-related stuff, this is not what I have in mind.

I'm pretty sure there are many companies doing this already and there is probably a common name for this, which I'm not aware of. But I want to have such capability in my company.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? – March 2019 by mindcrime on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:33PM (#19383432)
I never actually tried to implement anything like that, but the idea has occurred to me before, and I - for one - find this wildly fascinating. If you make anything open source or anything, or have any write-ups on your work, I'd love to see it.