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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by ryantriangles on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:24AM (#19998719)
Popular video file players have supported generating iframe tracks for fast forwarding and thumbnail scrubbing for many years now, is there something about the way eg MPCBE and PotPlayer operate that is somehow unreasonable?
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by zbobet2012 on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:30AM (#19998744)
It's terrible performance on a power limited devices. It either burns up your battery or is unreasonably slow. Particularly when the source stream is high resolution or complexity.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by Rychard on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:41AM (#19998787)
Sure, but if you have the file, you could generate these ahead of time on a more powerful machine.

At any rate, I don't think users would balk at being given a choice.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by afiori on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:15AM (#19999798)
> You could of course build a "file based" implementation that had all of these features, but you would just be rebuilding DASH or HLS.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by auggierose on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:43AM (#19999675)
Yeah, but would they pay for it?
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