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The currently-complete tests are all 1080P. I'm comparing various H.264, H.265, and AV1 compression options with FFMPEG 9.0.2. Generally, I'm searching for the CRF (~quality) value that gives me a VMAF score of 95, and then tracking how much CPU time (and bitrate) is needed, then iterating over a ton of flags and videos.
Basically, I'm looking for the best compression options for each video to get a consistently good-to-great quality encoding with minimal visual artifacts.
The big surprise so far is the compression difference between the same videos using a ProRes original vs a H.265 (Main10 4:2:2) original.
I have two test videos for this, from two different cameras (Panasonic S1 II and Blackmagic Pyxis 12k), both shot in raw. I then exported the exact same 30s clip as 4K ProRes and as 4K H.265 (Main10 4:2:2) files. The two files for each clip are visually ~identical, but there's a 20-40x difference in file size.
Then I did 3 different compression runs:
1. Source=ProRes, scored vs ProRes.
2. Source=H.265, scored vs H.265.
3. Source=H.265, scored vs ProRes.VMAF is designed to catch compression artifacts by comparing the output video the uncompressed original, which makes case #3 kind of interesting. I'm doing this because I'm currently exporting most of my "final" videos out of Resolve as H.265, because I don't want to lug around *enormous* ProRes files. But I don't know what this is actually costing me, and this gives me a concrete measurement.
So far, using 1080P (downscaled from 4K originals, which *should* minimize H.265 artifacts quite a bit), I end up needing around a *30%* higher bitrate for H.265 sources to match the ProRes originals.
To put this in concrete terms, for one sample video, my best AV1 output sizes for VMAF=95 were:
- ProRes/ProRes: 3.48M
- H.265/H.264: 3.30M
- H.265/ProRes: 4.68M (+34%)Encoding into H.265 and H.264 gave similar ratios. I kind of expected H.265 to gain some sort of advantage here, but it didn't.
As a follow-up, I'll probably be investigating additional output options for Resolve -- surely there's *something* usable between the huge ProRes files and the much smaller H.265s.
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Did I say 5 different source videos? It's up to *19* now, with a mix of action cam footage (from several different cameras), mostly-static landscape video, long-lens wildlife video, and a couple low-quality home videos.
I also have a couple videos in both HDR and SDR, plus 2 exported from Resolve in ProRes vs H.265, to see what that does to the final compressed version.
There's no kill like overkill...
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I've had "benchmark FFMPEG's av1 encoding settings" on my list for around 18 months, and I might actually be making progress on it finally.
Unlike last time, when I tested H.265 options against a single video, I have 5 different source videos this time. Each of which shows somewhat different issues with encoders. SVT-AV1 seems to *hate* one of them, and gives me nasty color shifts even with really high quality settings. On the others, it's hands down the best option.
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Fall is always fleeting in the Seattle area, especially when mountains and passes are involved. Most of the smaller east-west passes in Washington close for the winter shortly after the first major snowfall, so you never really know if "next week" will even exist. One good storm, and it's 6 months before you can get back to your planned shooting location.
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Today's plan, v1: get up early and take fall pictures at Mt Rainier.
Today's plan, v2: get up early and stay home, working on my sadly-stalled FFMPEG+Shaka-Packager streaming-video encoder instead, and cutting down on the backlog of half-complete videos from last week.
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Et re-hop là.
Un numéro très oubliable à l'exception d'une nouvelle tuerie littéraire signée du GOAT Theodore Sturgeon, et de quelques détails rigolos.
Même quand c'est pas bien, Fiction c'est bien.
https://syndromequickson.com/2026/10/23/fiction-n253-janvier-1975/
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Red Hot Chili Peppers laid bare in revealing new book from top British photographer | #Loudersound
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So I'm still #laidup with my injured foot. But I'm #babysitting the girl from down the street. When her mom found I was home recuperating she asked me to look after Jennie.
Jennie is a cute and precocious 10 year old. With big blue eyes and dirty blond hair. We played #Carcassonne then watched some #anime #TenchiMuyoGXP. She is asleep in my bed as mom is picking her up in the morning. It's always nice to snuggle in bed with a cutie 😉 -
Royals’ homegrown defensive dominance has laid the blueprint for Reds’ path forward https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/836900/ #Baseball #Kansas #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #MLB #royals
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These things commonly occurred when church parishes were laid out. What people did was to make a *list* of which farms belonged to a certain parish. Whether the territorial border of the parish made any sense was unimportant. But later, one edge of that parish might become a national border.
So my guess is that what you've got here is the boundary between the fields of two Medieval farms.
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Of the Yale prom:
"If all those sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
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"40 Years Ago, Netanyahu Laid the Groundwork for America’s Disastrous Global War on Terror"
Netanyahu's "writings from the 1980s & 1990s also reveal his long game for war against Iran – & how he influenced everyone from Reagan to Bush to Trump."
Source: Zeteo Oct 23
#USPol #EUPol #WarOnTerror #Netanyahu #USImperialism #Palestine .
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Andoni Iraola's next Liverpool objective is obvious as Anfield decline is laid bare
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/andoni-iraolas-next-liverpool-objective-34806280
This week's Blood Red column assesses Liverpool's form at Anfield and how it is on Andoni Iraola to restore the fear factor #LFC #YNWA #Anfieldstadium #AndoniIraola #LiverpoolFC -
Évariste Galois, born OTD in 1811, laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, used in #cryptography; he died at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel https://cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurity/crypto/?s=mb #cybersecurity #history
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As is tradition, iFixit has torn open the latest iPhone and laid its parts bare on a table. It found some interesting details about how Apple might be hiding the crease on the Duo's folding screen and gave it a 5/10 repairability score. That might not seem particularly high, but it's the best score the […]#Apple #iPhone #News #Tech
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The NT child protection review is another wake-up call on the DV crisis
By Olivana LathourisAmid the political furore and media scrutiny surrounding the Kumanjayi Little Baby child protection review, the most shocking and obvious issue laid bare in the report — family and domestic violence — has struggled to command the same attention.
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We were changing a small CLI read path. The first pass explored adding an in-memory cache: the agent read the files, sketched the eviction policy, and laid out the tradeoffs. Then we redirected: skip the cache, just read from the source each time, the dataset is tiny.
The final diff still carried three things we never asked for. A cache-eviction helper sat in a utility file. Reads routed through a thin layer the cache had designed around. A test asserted a cache miss that no longer existed. The agent had accepted the redirect in the reply, but the rejected exploration had not left the window, so it kept treating every earlier proposal as a live requirement.
The tell was in the summary: the agent described the cache as "kept minimal for later" rather than removed. It remembered that the cache was discussed; it did not remember that the cache was killed.
Why a rejected branch survives the redirect
The context window stores proposals, files, and tradeoffs as a flat stream of text. It has no status column. Nothing in the loop marks an idea as accepted, deferred, or dropped, so a branch the user verbally rejected looks identical to one still open when the agent reaches for the next thing to write.Agents accumulate requirements cumulatively. Each turn reads what came before and treats it as background that still applies; a later "no" changes the current instruction but does not erase the earlier exploration from memory. When the agent drafts code, it draws on everything in the window rather than re-deriving which parts are still active.
Verbally dropping an idea is especially weak. "Don't do the cache" removes it from the next sentence but leaves the cache's design, file paths, and helper names intact in the trace. The agent has no mechanism to delete that material, so it keeps surfacing as a plausible place to add a small, harmless-looking piece.
What ships when a dropped branch lingers
- Unrequested abstractions. A helper or routing layer built for the rejected approach survives because it still looks like useful scaffolding, even though nothing calls it.
- Tests for behavior that was killed. A cache-miss case, an eviction assertion, or a boundary the user removed gets written because the scenario is still present in the trace.
- Dead code that drifts. The orphaned helper is harmless today but gets edited in later passes, so it accumulates assumptions nobody agreed to.
- Reviewer confusion. A human reading the diff cannot tell whether the extra layer was requested; it looks like a deliberate design choice rather than a leftover branch.
- Scope creep that stays invisible. Each leftover piece is small, so the total overreach never reads as a feature, just as a few extra functions.
The pattern repeats across redirects. Every time you pivot away from an explored option without clearing it from the working notes, that option keeps contributing a small piece to the diff.
Keep an active list separate from dropped exploration
Treat the context window as memory without a status field, and give it one explicitly:- Maintain a short active-constraint list. At the top of the working notes keep only what is currently required: read from source, no cache, no routing layer. Everything else lives below it.
- Mark dropped branches visibly. When an approach is rejected, write
DROPPED: in-memory cache — do not implementin the notes instead of only saying "no" in chat, so the agent sees the status rather than the bare proposal. - Restate the active goal before each turn. Before writing code, have the agent repeat the current constraints from the active list rather than re-scanning the whole trace for what matters.
- Gate new abstractions on the active list. A helper that does not map to a current requirement should not land, even if it feels like good scaffolding.
- Review the diff against the active list. After the pass, check every added function against what was actually requested; anything that traces back to a dropped branch gets removed before merge.
Present in the window is not approved
An idea that appears in the context trace is not the same as an idea the user accepted. Without an explicit status, the agent cannot tell a finished exploration from an open plan, and the rejected branch keeps shipping in small pieces. Mark what was killed, keep what is active in one short list, and let the diff prove it.#aiagents #contextengineering #prompting #workflow #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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If only the tenth part of the religion and the morals that are in books existed in the heart! But what almost universally happens is that the greater part of human wisdom, soon after its production, is laid to rest in repositories. Hence it was once suggested that this word must be derived, not from the Latin reponere, but direct from the French repos.
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Assault on patron was homophobic attack, film festival says
The Adelaide Film Festival says one of its patrons was hospitalised after a violent homophobic attack in the city's CBD last weekend.
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Man accused of U.S. Consulate bomb threat now facing terrorism hoax charges
#halifax Regional Police announced Friday they've laid two more charges against the man acccused of threatening to bomb the U.S. Consulate in downtown #halifax this summer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-us-consulate-bomb-threat-terrorism-hoax-charges-9.7393930?cmp=rss -
Today is the anniversary of the death of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany who died in 1957. An English-Irish author, poet, and playwright, he was commonly known as Lord Dunsany and is considered by many critics to have laid the grounds for the fantasy genre.
Dunsany's most notable fantasy short stories appeared in collections from 1905 to 1919, before fantasy had been recognised as a distinct genre.
He is best known today for the 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter and his first book, The Gods of Pegāna, which depicts a fictional pantheon.
Among his best-known characters was Joseph Jorkens, an obese, middle-aged raconteur who frequented the fictional Billiards Club in London and would tell fantastic stories if anyone bought him a large whiskey and soda. These books were among the first of a type that would become popular in fantasy and science fiction writing: highly improbable "club tales" told at a gentleman's club or bar.
An impressive list of later writers have said they were influenced by Dunsany’s work including: Terry Pratchett, H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Fletcher Pratt, Jorge Luis Borges, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, C. L. Moore, Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, David Eddings, Michael Moorcock, Clive Barker, and Neil Gaiman.
#WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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Navigator steers home latest patrol ship in centuries-old ceremony
By Jodie HamiltonKatie Webb skippered her dad's fishing boat from age 12, and now returns to Port Lincoln as the navigator on the newly commissioned HMAS Eyre.
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This building near Waterloo Station was once the terminus for the London Necropolis Railway, a venture that aimed to reduce pressure on the capital's burial grounds by transporting bodies to the enormous Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. Funeral trains carried coffins and mourners (tickets had to be purchased for both) to Brookwood in around 50 minutes. The cemetery had separate stations for Anglicans and Non-conformists and trains and waiting rooms were strictly segregated on class lines. At the London station, corpses were laid out in a chapel room so people who couldn't make it out to Brookwood could pay their respects. A steam- powered lift would then convey the coffins up to the platforms. The London Necropolis Railway was, however, not as successful as had been hoped and was wound down after the London terminus was badly damaged in World War II. #history #gothic #folklore #death #railways #weird #London #Victorian #Halloween #31DaysofHalloween #steampunk
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📅 OCTOBER 24 📖
#OnThisDay in #history:
1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
1860 – Convention of Peking: The Second Opium War formally comes to a close, with Qing China ceding Kowloon in perpetuity to the victorious British Empire.
1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
1929 – "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange, the first day of the panic in the markets that contributes to the Great Depression.
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.
