Like, can someone just make a video format that is a regular file format like any other file format? That isn't broken into separate transport file streaming chunk opaque flibflobber formats? We all know what a video is, we all know how it behaves, just make one god damn thing.
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the way I see it, the reason we have the complexity of container formats is to avoid constantly redesigning the file format every time someone comes up with a new compression algorithm, which isn't something bink has to deal with
But file formats are very easy, and there is almost no practical benefit to re-using a well-understood kind of format. You make the job way harder by trying to reuse formats, and make the software much less robust, as we see empirically.
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Being contrarian and having worked both sides of the fence, this is like the video side announcing graphics APIs should all be scene graphs. Needless complication in the video world does exist, however, there is sad but necessary pain around security, hardware and distribution.
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Bink is in a narrow niche on those variables, which it handles very well, but if video is core to your business you'll often need the DRM/analytics while keeping that separate from the DSP/CODEC. Security often mandates the CPU has no access to the decoded content, for example.
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Then why is there not at least a simple way to play video for people who don't want Top Secret security, which is most video?
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You should see the patent fees.
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Yeah sorry, no. There are plenty of ways of playing video not covered by patents. This conversation doesn't make sense, I am going to check out of it.
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Weren't you complaining about not being able to play video? ;) Bluntly, it doesn't make sense because you're making incorrect assumptions. That is not to defend unnecessary complication, but to explain the enormously active (and perverse) incentives that preserve the status quo.
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