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They should work on middle-out encoding.
4 guys at once, two on each side, tip to tip
Middle, out
That’s just a Tuesday night for me.
It’s a really interesting article about something we might not think about.
It’d be interesting also to try to see how much money they can save by using a lower bitrate or saving energy by using less servers.
It’s a lot of things we take for granted when we’re just watching a show and you don’t think about all the work behind it.
Netflix definitely does a better job than its competition but the encoding is not perfect as it is, lowering it for certain material would push me away. They generally do a better job with their original content as well. Mario movie(Universal) looked like ass. Damsel (Netflix)looked quite good. Extraction 2 looked really good.
They are correct in that encoding is a super geeky topic even by the standards of technology discussions.
It is fascinating to see how encoding has changed across generation. Take a relatively high bitrate source file and encode it with XviD, x265, x265 and whatever is the top AV1 codec at the same bitrate x resolution.
Not surprisingly, the biggest jump in quality will be from XviD to x264, but x265 does offer notable improvements.
