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If you're encoding an Animated AVIF for Discord, you might run into an FFmpeg pitfall - it may not default to infinite looping, so it'll only play once. Add the `-loop 0` option to fix this.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The ironic thing about VPNs is they are only safe because they cannot see your traffic because it's already encrypted by HTTPS. 15 years ago, VPNs were untenable because you trusted them with private data they could spy on. They are only enabled now by innate privacy the ecosystem already provides.

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Does anyone here know of an MPEG-2 encoder that outperforms the FFmpeg builtin one? We suspect that one exists, but have so far been disappointed with the proprietary encoders included in DVD-making software.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

It’s almost as if, unable to make computers smarter than people, we just settled on getting computers to make people dumber.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Bluesky proves that a fully-featured social media site doesn't need to have terrible performance. We've seen plenty of lightweight frontends for other sites like Nitter, but they aren't what anyone would consider "fully featured". It'd be cool if some of the other major players could take notice.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This new chat input design honestly seems like a downgrade.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

If you ask an LLM for help with FFmpeg, it might tell you that "-fs" targets a file size, but this is completely false! Your encode will be halted when the specified amount of data has been written, even if it isn't done. Don't believe everything that an LLM tells you.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Discord's servers are now capable of decoding AV1 and producing a preview/thumbnail with AVIF, so why isn't AV1 supported in direct video uploads? It's long been possible to use it through an embed tool, where Discord doesn't need to generate its own thumbnail.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Do you have an Intel 8th-10th generation laptop? These can hardware decode VP9, but not AV1. If you want better battery life on YouTube, go to your Playback and Performance settings and switch to "Prefer AV1 for SD". You'll get VP9 for high resolutions, reducing power draw considerably.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

With a hardware media engine like NVENC, it's usually not a good idea to HW decode → SW encode due to the perf cost of GPU → CPU transfer. However, with a large source and small output, such as a Discord encode, you may find that HW decoding and scaling with SW encoding is still faster than pure SW.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

AVIF images, still and animated, are now working on the web version of Discord! This allows much higher efficiency than GIF or JPEG. Our website is able to compress any image or GIF to an AVIF at a target size, including 10 MiB for Discord.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Discord has just added Animated AVIF support in the canary release of Discord!

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

You can upload a maximum of 50 MB to Bluesky - but with the length limited to 1 minute and the video transcoded server-side anyway, what's the point? We want to see unlimited-length uploads with Bluesky directly serving the user-generated video encode - much like Discord.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I already have onedrive, it's the one drive on my computer and that is where I want to save my work you clown

submitted 55 days ago • 149 comments

We got our hands on an Intel B580 and the AV1 encoding speeds are insane - over 400 fps at 1080p. We're interested in seeing if it could work to accelerate target-size compression.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

windows defaulting to hiding file extensions was like 9/11 for software literacy

submitted 69 days ago • 39 comments

Idk about anyone else but the 1 minute max thing on videos is killing me. I’ve always been anti-long clips, but even 10 extra seconds would make so many clips much better. I don’t want to thread 2 together either. Too messy. This should be first order of business on improvements list.

submitted 70 days ago • 100 comments

Real professionals do not plug random devices into their computers. Real professionals do "curl -sL totally-trustworthy-site.com/install.sh | sudo bash" instead.

submitted 71 days ago • 31 comments

With just about every piece of technology up until now, when it's not working correctly that is apparent to the user in some way. The reason LLMs and today's versions of "AI" scare me is that users think they are working correctly even when they're putting out nonsense.

submitted 73 days ago • 72 comments

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submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Autocompressor is inspired by a Discord community compressing entire movies to Discord-compatible sizes — and with our proprietary algorithm, we're replicating these results completely automatically. Try it today!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

A bot that detects if ChatGPT is down and immediately sends a basic computer skills quiz to everyone in IT you have to finish fullscreen holding your drivers license

submitted 77 days ago • 11 comments

Discord, I cannot tell you how much I don't need to be notified every time someone reacts to a message???

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Regarding Animated WebP on Discord, we've received information about the limits for previewing them. An Animated WebP upload must be a max of 2000 frames and take less than 30 seconds to generate a preview for. The encoding timeout will block some uploads from animating in an unpredictable way.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky only allows up to 1-minute videos - but did you know that we can compress full-length movies to 50 MB? With our site, it's possible to get videos down to about 8 MB/hour - though the quality will leave a lot to be desired.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

We found that the size limit for Bluesky is 50 MB (50,000,000 bytes, 47.68 MiB), which is contrary to Discord Nitro Basic, which allows 50 MiB (52,428,800 bytes) uploads. Autocompressor nearly always exceeds 50 MB when set to 50 MiB. We'll be updating the service with an MB/MiB toggle for Bluesky.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Testing if video embeds via the Discord AV1 Embed Generator work properly on Bluesky: autocompressor.net/av1?s=WsXTVWRm

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment