Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
☃️karolherbst☃️Assumptions that programmers make that are wrong: Videos have a constant single resolution over their duration.
kate ist wieder normal@karolherbst that's a new one to me
@kate I think it's a new one to everybody except the one person who thought filing bugs for this is a fun thing to do :)
@karolherbst oh heh i thought that was some kind of secret knowledge of people dealing with media stuff
Gil Pedersen@karolherbst @kate Nah, this has legitimate uses in broadcast TV. It can occur in both the bitstream and containers.
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@kanongil i can't imagine any broadcaster taking the chance at changing a stream and crashing a bunch of crappy TV firmware.
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Jann Horn@karolherbst @kate i vaguely remember there have been some security bugs in video encoding/decoding caused by this feature
Andrew Zonenberg@karolherbst oh nooooo
@karolherbst assumptions that video format standards committees make that are wrong: changing the resolution mid-stream will be a desirable, useful, and well-implemented feature.
@rotopenguin you won't believe it, but there are good uses cases for it 🙃
Borup@karolherbst @rotopenguin same as variable bitrates for sound I would assume?
@borup @rotopenguin mixed content for streaming, but also.. what if the network is unstable and you want to adjust it to send lower/higher quality midstream?
What if the device is capable of changing orientation, e.g. a phone going from portrait to landscape mid stream?