Hackernews posts about H.264

H.264 is a widely-used video compression standard that enables efficient transmission and decoding of high-quality video content.

  1. Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M (www.tomshardware.com)
    193 points by MaximilianEmel 5 days ago | 75 comments
  2. H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means (www.streamingmedia.com)
    75 points by phantomathkg 5 days ago | 42 comments
  3. Show HN: I successfully failed at one-shot-ing a video codec like h.264 (github.com)
    9 points by bushido 4 days ago | 3 comments
  4. Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet? (meta.wikimedia.org)
    6 points by airstrike 2 days ago | discuss
  5. H.264 licenses: Prices increase up to 45 times (www.heise.de)
    5 points by doener 3 days ago | 1 comments
  6. We Cut FFmpeg Memory Usage by 5x When Transcoding 8K HEVC to H.264 (blog.addpipe.com)
    2 points by remusnegrota 20 days ago | discuss
  7. Show HN: Tools.video – Browser-native video processing at 50 GB scale
    2 points by terryops 21 days ago | discuss
  8. Show HN: OMT WHEP Gateway – Stream live video to any browser via WebRTC
    2 points by fonty39 30 days ago | discuss
  9. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (blog.helix.ml)
    523 points by quesobob 4 months ago | 320 comments
  10. H.264 Is Magic (2016) (sidbala.com)
    333 points by tosh almost 2 years ago | 205 comments
  11. Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video (github.com)
    160 points by andsoitis 6 months ago | 37 comments
  12. Comparison: H.264 vs. H.265/HEVC vs. VP9 (www.red5.net)
    11 points by mondainx 6 months ago | 6 comments
  13. Show HN: Muxide – Zero-dep pure Rust MP4 muxer (H.264/H.265/AV1, no FFmpeg) (github.com)
    11 points by MKuykendall 4 months ago | 2 comments
  14. AV1 vs. H.264: What Video Codec to Choose for Your App? (www.red5.net)
    10 points by mondainx 5 months ago | 2 comments
  15. Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet? (meta.wikimedia.org)
    6 points by ksec 6 months ago | 2 comments
  16. Playing 1080p H.264 video on my old 256 MB Raspberry Pi (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
    6 points by todsacerdoti almost 2 years ago | discuss
  17. Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 and Bluetooth Pairing (www.phoronix.com)
    5 points by mikece about 1 year ago | discuss
  18. Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet? (meta.wikimedia.org)
    4 points by Velocifyer about 2 months ago | 2 comments
  19. Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec (github.com)
    4 points by LorenDB about 1 year ago | discuss
  20. Playing 1080p H.264 video on my old 256 MB Raspberry Pi (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
    4 points by yarapavan almost 2 years ago | discuss
  21. More innovations in H.264/AVC software decoding [pdf] (fosdem.org)
    2 points by ksec about 1 year ago | discuss
  22. A quality comparison between x264 (H.264/AVC) and x265 (H.265/HEVC) (wp.xin.at)
    1 points by Frotag about 1 year ago | discuss
  23. Is the AVC/H.264 Codec Fading? (www.streamingmedia.com)
    1 points by peutetre almost 2 years ago | discuss
  24. Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory (github.com)
    61 points by saleban1031 10 months ago | 23 comments
  25. Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP) (github.com)
    41 points by MdSadiqMd about 1 month ago | 2 comments
  26. Show HN: OxiMedia – Pure Rust Reconstruction of FFmpeg and OpenCV (github.com)
    11 points by kitasan about 1 month ago | 11 comments
  27. Show HN: Lorem.video – placeholder videos generated from URLs (lorem.video)
    6 points by guntis_dev about 2 months ago | 3 comments
  28. Show HN: Qast – Cast anything (files, URLs, screen) to any TV from the CLI (github.com)
    4 points by narragansett about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  29. Show HN: I built a free, open-source macOS screen recorder with modern features (github.com)
    4 points by jsattler about 2 months ago | 1 comments
  30. I built cloud transcoding 50x cheaper than AWS/Coconut/others – anyone need it?
    3 points by souvlakee 3 months ago | 1 comments
  31. Show HN: Video to Image – Client-side frame extraction with AI quality scoring (video-to-image.com)
    3 points by yuni_aigc 3 months ago | discuss
  32. Show HN: DalVideo – Screen recorder with offline AI captions and built-in editor
    2 points by arigaram about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  33. Show HN: OctoFlow v1.0.0 – GPU VM where the GPU runs autonomously, CPU is BIOS
    2 points by mr_octopus about 1 month ago | discuss
  34. Show HN: CuaBot – Co-op computer-use for any coding agent (github.com)
    2 points by frabonacci 2 months ago | discuss
  35. Show HN: Compressor – native Android video compression using Media3
    2 points by JoshAtticus 2 months ago | discuss
  36. Show HN: I built an MCP to help build Cursor for Video Editing (smithery.ai)
    2 points by misbahsy 11 months ago | discuss
  37. Show HN: A library to turn any React Native View into a video or an image (github.com)
    1 points by WingenderA about 1 month ago | discuss
  38. Show HN: A macOS screen recorder for the rest of us – free and open source (jsattler.github.io)
    1 points by jsattler about 2 months ago | discuss