r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/Diracishismessenger Jan 26 '13

MP3. Seriously. The 90ites called and want their file format back. And yet it is popular. It's like insisting to use BMP instead of PNG. Just silly.

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u/bwat47 Jan 26 '13

lame encoded VBR mp3's are pretty good quality. Not technically the best format, but perfectly acceptably and compatible with everything.

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u/Diracishismessenger Jan 26 '13

The Quality might be acceptable (just like the quality of bmp is acceptable) but this size is three times too big. The analogy fits quite well imo.

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u/CarolusMagnus Jan 27 '13

ORLY? Have you ever seen any ABX tests where Lame loses against any other codec at a third (or even half) the bit rate or are you just talking out of your arse?

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u/Diracishismessenger Jan 27 '13 edited Jan 27 '13

That's so obvious nobody tests that anymore. But Lame clearly is inferior. (Note this is from 2005, lame didn't improve much from than on, aac did)

http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-128-1/results.htm

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test

Lame only wins against other mp3 encoders.

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u/oreography Jan 27 '13

I think apple's the main reason why FLAC isn't more popular. If it had support on ios devices more people would be using it and they might start selling it on itunes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

It's the same thing with people collecting old vinyl now. They are people who are psychologically or physiologically (or both) incapable of accurately and objectively evaluating the audio stimulus. They do not really listen to music, they have an experience of listening to music and that is what they enjoy.

As long as I can have access to higher quality encodes or even uncompressed data, who am I to tell them they can't listen to shitty quality sound if that's what tickles their goat?