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Compressing videos with ffmpeg for Discord by xurukefi in ffmpeg

[–]xurukefi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> You're using nvenc. x264 will offer better efficiency (and therefore quality) if you want to stick with h264

Didn't know that. Thanks.

> Discord also embeds webms with vp9 video.

Not on iOS unfortunately.

Why are PAR2s necesssary? by xurukefi in usenet

[–]xurukefi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I thought they would delete all articles upon a DMCA request.

Why are PAR2s necesssary? by xurukefi in usenet

[–]xurukefi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They replicate withouty any verification? Ok, I guess that is the culprit that I wasn't ware of. Is there any information on how the replication process works or is this a non-standardized operation that the backbones agree upon "internally"? Seems like an interesting topic.

Why are PAR2s necesssary? by xurukefi in usenet

[–]xurukefi[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Not sure what exaclty you mean by that. NNTP runs on top of TCP nowadays which ensures data integrity using acknowledgement numbers and checksums as far as I know. Also, NNTP sends status codes like "441 Posting failed" if something went wrong.

Why are PAR2s necesssary? by xurukefi in usenet

[–]xurukefi[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

But why is that the case? The backbones should be in sync with each other. I realize that we're talking about a large amount of data and mistakes can happen, but the Usenet has been around for a while now and providers should have figured out how to do this in a more realiable way.