Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by stefan_ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:25AM (#20293443)

Real-time is such an unfortunate term when talking about video collaboration. A codec that can achieve real-time encoding speed is still useless if it has a 10 frame latency to output the first data, and arguably not real-time.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by MisterTea on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:54AM (#20295550)

The proper term should is low-latency. Real-time implies deterministic timing of events which must meet a deadline.

Real-time can give you low latency but so can a system with a high enough throughput.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by morerunes on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:26AM (#20293782)

~1/3 second is perfectly acceptable to me to be within the range of "real time", and is quick enough that I'd be willing to bet most people won't notice even in a two way conversation.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by Benjamin_Dobell on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:06AM (#20294003)

For live streaming and chat that's fairly acceptable. However, don't forget there are other potential use cases, particularly since cloud gaming is supposedly becoming a thing again.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by spyder on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:44AM (#20293869)

... and on what kind of hardware, because it's not so much useful if you need a supercomputer for it.

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