[manca]

The problem is that most of the big tech thinks they are smarter than 1000's of codec engineers who worked on libx264 and they try to reinvent the wheel. They realize too late that all the money they threw into building their own stuff (or variants) do far worse in general case than the baseline libx264. They just don't want to admit it.

[mlazos]

I don’t think it’s that they don’t want to admit it, it’s that the cost savings from something disruptive may make it worth it at scale. Or that somebody wants to risk their career on it haha and big tech has tons of cash to throw around.

[LdSGSgvupDV]

BidTechEngineer: Ya, I know, but I need that wasted money.

[manca]

Absolutely. In fact, I interviewed a guy last week that comes from very big tech and he basically himself admitted that they're basically wasting time and money chasing unknown "ideal" codec while almost always those projects hit dead end. He loves the money, I am sure, but he wants out anyway. :)

[Tade0]

Who wouldn't eventually?

I've been to a project where, because the development and "hardening" budgets were separate, we knowingly pushed out buggy code so that we could take advantage of the latter.

Had I known that half of the job would be to game the system, I wouldn't have joined.

[nowherebeen]

> half of the job would be to game the system, I wouldn't have joined.

Bureaucracy is inevitable once a certain number of people join a group.

[ClumsyPilot]

"Had I known that half of the job would be to game the system"

You should be happy it's only half!

[ignoramous]

...and I need that promotion to Senior Staff.

[esperent]

I think libx265 is the baseline now BTW (correct me if I'm wrong).