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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by ksec on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:49PM (#25994483)
I really wish Dark Shikari and Loren Merritt had continue to work on x265 or some other video encoder.

80%+ of all Video on the Internet are still on H.264 / AVC. And vast majority of them are encoded through x264.

Their contribution to Video Encoding can not be understated.

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by plorkyeran on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:56PM (#25995809)
The issues related to commercial licensing of x264 probably ensured that Dark Shikari would never want to work on video encoding things again even before she burned out and quit software development entirely a few years later.
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by mpfundstein on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:52AM (#25998334)
what kind of person is Dark Shikari actually? Didnt know she is female. Where is she from? Is she employed somewhere or a freelancer????

I just wonder because she is such a legend but internet knows NOTHING.

Bit like Satoshi...

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by ksec on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:26AM (#26000164)
>But internet knows NOTHING.

She prefer to keep herself private. Those in the community would know. So it isn't exactly Internet knows nothing.

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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by mpfundstein on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:22AM (#26011971)
ok public internet then.
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by rodgerd on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:31PM (#26072748)
Why is it any of the public Internet's business?
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