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by ksec 1965 days ago
I really wish Dark Shikari and Loren Merritt had continue to work on x265 or some other video encoder.

80%+ of all Video on the Internet are still on H.264 / AVC. And vast majority of them are encoded through x264.

Their contribution to Video Encoding can not be understated.

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The issues related to commercial licensing of x264 probably ensured that Dark Shikari would never want to work on video encoding things again even before she burned out and quit software development entirely a few years later.
what kind of person is Dark Shikari actually? Didnt know she is female. Where is she from? Is she employed somewhere or a freelancer????

I just wonder because she is such a legend but internet knows NOTHING.

Bit like Satoshi...

>But internet knows NOTHING.

She prefer to keep herself private. Those in the community would know. So it isn't exactly Internet knows nothing.

ok public internet then.
Why is it any of the public Internet's business?