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cpfohl
on Nov 8, 2011
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A web video company that is most likely a hoax
Hate to sound ignorant, but someone want to explain?
aidenn0
on Nov 8, 2011
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If you encode their test-video with an off-the-shelf open source H264 codec on normal settings, you end up with a video that is smaller than their sample video. Their "amazing new technology" is just vanilla h264 compression.
pcubed
on Nov 8, 2011
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Seconded. It seems like they basically just turned the frame-rate down, but it's not clear to me.
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