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“ Genius lies in inventing stuff that is totally obvious in retrospect ”  — Me Every now and then you see stuff that genuinely surprises you. Oh, not in the “ it’s a floor-wax  and  a salad-dressing ” sense, but in the “ good god, that is so ridiculously obvious, why didn’t  I   think of that? ” sense. Fouladi et al (•).  have pulled off  two  of these with their new approach to video encoding — in their approach to architecting streaming video, and actually writing the codecs Video Streaming Let’s look at the architecture first. Most (all?) video streaming systems these days have two major components, a codec to encode the video, and a transport protocol to get it to the destination. The way the system usually works is that that the transport protocol figures out the network capacity the best it can, by looking at congestion, RTT, etc. The codec then uses the capacity to figure out what levels of compression to apply to the video, so that t...

So you’ve got an AI thing that you’re doing with video. Fun, right? Probably involves cats. In fact, it’s probably something like “ GANs to locate and identify Cats on TV shows ”, and is going to end up being demoed at  https://cats_on_friends.io Thing is, as you’re going down this road, at some point you’re going to have to train your model, and that is going to involve a s**t-ton of video. Video that is, by definition, data-heavy — all those 30 minute episodes at 720p add up. What’s worse is that you’re likely to randomly sample these video clips, a minute here, a minute there, and so on. Video Codecs and Compression Wait, you  know  how video codecs works, right? They, effectively, store the whole screen every now and then, with all the stuff between these screenshots just being the data that changed between these screenshots.  These screenshots are called keyframes or intra-frames , and when you want to work with a video segment at time 2:11, what you ac...

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