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Re:Linux Pipes Are Slow by jraph on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:46AM (#41355865)
> There was some minimal quality loss, of course, but it was completely irrelevant in the big picture

But then the solutions are not comparable anymore, are they? Would a lossless codec instead have improved speed?

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Re:Linux Pipes Are Slow by chupasaurus on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:57AM (#41355949)
H.264 has lossless mode.
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Re:Linux Pipes Are Slow by Sesse__ on Monday August 26, 2024 @09:39AM (#41357001)
No, because I had hardware H.264 encoder support. :-) (The decoding in FFmpeg on the other side was still software. But it was seemingly much cheaper to do a H.264 software decode.)
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