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  • Jellyfin and others transcode some videos to a more streamable format. Not important if it’s already a good streamable format, but if it’s some older file, it might not even be streamable (like AVI, and WMV). Those situations are where transcoding is necessary. It also comes in to play when the bitrate needs to change, like trying to watch a high bitrate video on old hardware that cannot handle it (like an old chromecast). It’s nice when the server can just transcode the video and send a less heavy or more compatible stream.

    Hardware acceleration for the transcoding is simply more efficient these days. Most CPUs for the last decade can do software transcoding of 1080p without much issue (if that’s all it’s doing), but get multiple people watching older videos or some really high bitrate ones and hardware acceleration will become a tangible benefit, too.

    Your situation only works for video formats that are streaming-friendly, meaning all the browser has to do is feed the stream of data to a video player, and it Just Works. The media player doesn’t need significant chunks of the file to start playing it, so as long as the connection is fast enough, it’s fine.






  • Ohhhh nononono, I agree that those in power have far MORE blame, but at what point do you call a dangerous idiot caught up in propaganda dangerous?

    No matter how you feel about them, they WILL kill you for disobeying. At what point does a useful idiot become an enemy combatant?

    People that embrace teachings wholly counter to what they are supposed to believe should bare guilt. They should not be forgiven if they go on to make the world a worse place simply for being an ignorant fool.

    They can be forgiven AFTER they change their ways. Until then, they are a brainless tool being actively used by evil people.











  • Nope. The titan sub was having trouble. They dropped weights and were attempting to make an emergency ascent, but it wasn’t rising fast. Meaning, the density of the sub was increasing. Some people are saying leak, others say water egress between CF layers and the hull failing, meaning contraction in the middle, like squishing a tube (see the simulations for how the static deformation would look like).

    Sure, the complete failure was over in milliseconds, but not the experience of being an experimental test passenger on a rich moron’s death trap!