Sure, in the same way that advertising should never work since people would just skip over a banner ad. In an ideal world, everyone would uniformly go "nope"; in our world, it's very much analogous to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war .
We already have some of the stepping stones for this. But honestly much better for upscaling poor quality streams vs just gives things a weird feeling when it is a better quality stream.
There also are no scene rules for AV1, only for H265 [1]
Yeah, that's... sparse uptake. A few smart TV SOCs have it, but aside from Intel it seems that none of the major computer or mobile vendors are bothering. AV2 next it is then!
With the SVT-AV1 encoder you can achieve better quality in less time versus the x265 encoder. You just have to use the right presets. See the encoding results section:
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...
AV1 definitely is missing some techniques patented by h264 and h265, but AV2 is coming around now that all the h264 innovations are patent free (and now that there's been another decade of research into new cutting edge techniques for it).
https://www.androidcentral.com/streaming-tv/chromecast/netfl...
Eventually people and companies will associate HEVC with "that thing that costs extra to work", and software developers will start targeting AV1/2 so their software performance isn't depending on whether the laptop manufacturer or user paid for the HEVC license.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-...
https://wiki.x266.mov/docs/encoders/SVT-AV1
https://jaded-encoding-thaumaturgy.github.io/JET-guide/maste...
[0] https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io [1] https://github.com/throwaway96/downgr8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#:~:text=Character%20subs...
This is very true, but we're talking about an entertainment provider's choice of codec for streaming to millions of subscribers.
A security recording device's choice of codec ought to be very different, perhaps even regulated to exclude codecs which could "hallucinate" high-definition detail not present in the raw camera data, and the limitations of the recording media need to be understood by law enforcement. We've had similar problems since the introduction of tape recorders, VHS and so on, they always need to be worked out. Even the phantom of Helibronn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn) turned out to be DNA contamination of swabs by someone who worked for the swab manufacturer.
Ok, I don't think I'll find it. I think I'm mostly just regurgitating what I remember watching at one of the research symposiums. IDK which one it was unfortunately [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@allianceforopenmedia2446/videos
> people who point out obscure titles are downvoted in most cases, and eventually shadow-banned
Nothing like this happens! Nobody gets banned for pointing out anything about titles. People only get banned ("shadow" or otherwise) for serial abuse or trolling (and only after multiple warnings), or for spamming. Comments only get downvoted if more people disagree than agree with the title suggestion or the way it's suggested. It's no big deal. It's how opinions are expressed and debated on HN.
> The HN post is entitled merely "tunni.gg".
That's Tunnl.gg [1], and it would have been fine for the page's heading to be added to the HN title (that routinely happens when software projects on Github are submitted). It's also not terrible for just the project name to be there, because the name of the project (a variant of the word "Tunnel") hints at what it is. But we're not dogmatic about it, and anybody could have emailed us (hn@ycombinator.com) to suggest a better title we would have given it due consideration and replied appreciatively. We do that multiple times each day.
> You see plenty of similarly and intentionally obscure titles on HN daily. Try calling them out and see what happens.
“Intentionally obscure” isn't the right framing. Maybe we don't always want to clobber people over the head with obviousness. The joy of surprising discovery is an important part of the HN experience.
But the key principles – (a) respecting the original work of the author/publisher and (b) don't mislead or disrespect the HN audience with clickbait or false information – have proven to be the most stable and defensible over time. There's still plenty of room for discernment in the way those principles are applied on a case-by-case basis.
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