kierank

POSTS

• Falsehoods programmers believe about [video]

  by kierank on 6/8/2025, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• Maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility between our SRT implementation and libsrt

  by kierank on 3/7/2025, 3:36 AM with 0 comments

• How to Lie about Latency

  by kierank on 7/11/2024, 8:15 AM with 0 comments

• Library of Congress: Embracing FFV1 in Matroska Container as a Preferred Format

  by kierank on 12/6/2023, 12:06 AM with 0 comments

• Improving the boot times of servers with a custom coreboot BIOS

  by kierank on 9/20/2023, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?

  by kierank on 6/5/2023, 7:02 AM with 1 comments

• Are Video Codecs...Done?

  by kierank on 1/26/2023, 11:28 AM with 0 comments

• Experiences from weekly broadcasts over 5G – what's possible and what isn't yet

  by kierank on 10/3/2021, 12:04 AM with 0 comments

• Plocate, a Much Faster Locate

  by kierank on 10/12/2020, 2:56 PM with 0 comments

• What makes a good professional video capture/playback card?

  by kierank on 8/2/2020, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• Two Chinese Video Encoders

  by kierank on 6/29/2020, 12:44 AM with 3 comments

• George Hotz on Nvidia's Autonomous Driving Strategy

  by kierank on 5/25/2020, 1:43 PM with 0 comments

• Armburst American

  by kierank on 5/20/2020, 12:48 AM with 0 comments

• Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)

  by kierank on 2/16/2020, 11:52 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Document Management for Startups

  by kierank on 3/27/2019, 9:16 PM with 3 comments

• MPEG-G: the ugly

  by kierank on 10/13/2018, 11:29 AM with 40 comments

• A Look at the BBC UHD Encoder in 2018

  by kierank on 7/16/2018, 11:23 AM with 10 comments

• Demuxed 2017 Talks

  by kierank on 10/23/2017, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Optimising and Modernising FFmpeg’s IDCT – Part 2

  by kierank on 7/7/2017, 2:07 PM with 0 comments

• AAC's noise coding

  by kierank on 6/1/2017, 8:58 PM with 0 comments

• Automating mundane things in a startup

  by kierank on 2/14/2017, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• Unified unit testing of physical and IP video interfaces

  by kierank on 9/28/2016, 11:54 AM with 0 comments

• Towards crashless multimedia playback

  by kierank on 6/5/2016, 12:23 PM with 1 comments

• Conditional variable with futex

  by kierank on 5/29/2016, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• Format-Ion: Video Playback Errors in Beyoncé’s Latest Music Video

  by kierank on 2/12/2016, 12:48 AM with 0 comments

• Reverse Engineering the GoPro Cineform Codec

  by kierank on 1/1/2016, 8:43 AM with 0 comments

• Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit

  by kierank on 11/2/2015, 12:29 AM with 39 comments

• Faster 10-bit video conversions in FFmpeg

  by kierank on 5/14/2015, 11:40 PM with 0 comments

• Why does Tonga steal the hostname “to”?

  by kierank on 4/27/2015, 5:24 PM with 1 comments

• Popcorn Hour Revisited

  by kierank on 2/27/2015, 12:44 AM with 0 comments

• Distributed On-the-Fly Image Processing at Vimeo

  by kierank on 11/5/2014, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• Boycott Linux

  by kierank on 10/30/2014, 2:49 PM with comments

• Brute force thread debugging in FFmpeg

  by kierank on 1/12/2014, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• Two-day non-commercial workshop on software development for media/broadcast.

  by kierank on 10/4/2013, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Mystery Aircraft Parts and Atomic Clocks

  by kierank on 4/20/2013, 3:45 PM with 18 comments

• Apple ProRes codec reverse engineered

  by kierank on 9/15/2011, 4:20 PM with 25 comments

• Red Sands Sea Fort visit

  by kierank on 8/23/2011, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• X264 Summer of Code in Space

  by kierank on 7/24/2011, 11:34 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What language for a web frontend?

  by kierank on 7/4/2011, 4:26 PM with 4 comments

• VLC 1.2.0 features - Part 1 video output

  by kierank on 6/5/2011, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• Open Broadcast Encoder Realtime 0.1-alpha released

  by kierank on 4/26/2011, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Decoding VP8 On A Sega Dreamcast

  by kierank on 2/20/2011, 6:09 PM with 0 comments

• VLC: A slight misunderstanding...

  by kierank on 2/12/2011, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• Open Broadcast Encoder 0.1 Beta released

  by kierank on 2/2/2011, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• Good things start small - Straight from the Blu-ray

  by kierank on 12/6/2010, 12:12 AM with 0 comments

• AAC Bistream Flaws Part 1: The Channel Model

  by kierank on 8/25/2010, 10:22 PM with 0 comments

• Making the world's fastest VP8 decoder

  by kierank on 7/23/2010, 11:29 PM with 20 comments

• Vodafone Wayfinder Open Source Software

  by kierank on 7/15/2010, 1:46 PM with 0 comments

• Iran's 'Twitter revolution' was exaggerated

  by kierank on 6/10/2010, 3:50 PM with 1 comments

• Digital Economy Act - Analysis and loopholes from an ISP

  by kierank on 4/14/2010, 4:05 AM with 0 comments

• IPad simulator

  by kierank on 4/7/2010, 7:12 AM with 3 comments

• Ogg objections

  by kierank on 3/3/2010, 2:44 PM with 48 comments

• The problems with wavelets

  by kierank on 2/27/2010, 2:39 AM with 0 comments

• Intel's "cripple AMD" function

  by kierank on 1/3/2010, 6:24 PM with 80 comments

• Tell HN: "Proper News"

  by kierank on 10/18/2009, 7:11 PM with 12 comments

• Silicon Valley Fight Club (Video)

  by kierank on 8/18/2009, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Why cheap airlines are so cheap

  by kierank on 6/27/2009, 10:27 AM with 46 comments

• Clever British plug design.

  by kierank on 6/23/2009, 6:11 PM with 11 comments

• Is Amazon S3 too big to fail? Would it need a bailout?

  by kierank on 4/4/2009, 2:49 PM with 1 comments