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Part One: Basics of Working with Video and Images What? A video codec is a part of software/hardware that compresses and/or decompresses digital video. Why? Despite certain limitations in bandwidth and storage capacity, the market demands increasingly higher quality video. Do you remember how in the last post we calculated the minimum required for 30 […]
Part Two: Principles of How a Video Codec Works Any raster image can be represented as a two-dimensional matrix. When it comes to colors, the idea can be expanded by considering the image as a three-dimensional matrix, where additional dimensions are used to store data for each of the colors. If we look at the final color as a combination of so-called primary colors (red, green, and blue), in our […]
The release of the Python library for scientific computing, NumPy 1.18, has occurred. It is designed for working with multidimensional arrays and matrices while providing a large collection of functions implementing various algorithms related to matrix usage. NumPy is one of the most in-demand libraries used for scientific calculations. The project code is written in Python with optimizations in C and is distributed […]
U.S. intelligence officials have accused the increasingly popular messenger ToTok of surveilling its users. The agency believes that the app is used by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates to monitor user conversations, identify social connections, locations, and more. Over a million ToTok users reside in the UAE, but recently the app has been gaining traction in other countries as well, including […]
This is a true story; I witnessed it with my own eyes. A few years ago, a guy, like many of you, worked as a programmer. Just to clarify, he was a 1C specialist, working at a manufacturing company. Prior to that, he had tried various jobs – four years as a programmer in a franchise, a project manager, managing to complete 200 hours while simultaneously earning a percentage […]
The release of the new stable branch of the network analyzer Wireshark 3.2 has taken place. Recall that the project was initially developed under the name Ethereal, but in 2006, due to a conflict with the trademark owner of Ethereal, the developers were forced to rename the project to Wireshark. Key innovations in Wireshark 3.2.0: Support for stream mode packet reassembly has been implemented for HTTP/2. Support for importing profiles from zip archives has been added […]
Collabora has announced full support for the Mali T720 and T820 GPUs in the open-source Panfrost driver, which is part of Mesa and the Linux kernel. These GPUs are used in SoCs like the Allwinner H6 and Amlogic S912. All the prepared changes have been submitted to the Mesa codebase and will be included in the next significant release. It is noted that in […]
The second release candidate for Wine 5.0, the open-source implementation of the Win32 API, is now available for testing. The codebase is in freeze mode ahead of the release expected in early January. Compared to the Wine 5.0-RC1 release, 36 bug reports have been closed, and 69 fixes have been made. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications such as Age of Wonders 2 have been resolved: […]
A new version of the LV2 effects package LSP Plugins has been released, intended for audio processing during mixing and mastering of recordings. The changes in version 1.1.11 primarily involved the user interface and performance in signal processing. Firstly, additional features were added to the UI, such as support for drag & drop, bookmarks, and other enhancements. On the other hand, the low-level DSP code has been further optimized using instructions […]
SUSE has released the industrial distribution of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension have also been developed. The distribution can be downloaded and used for free, […]
A new stable branch of the Flatpak toolkit 1.6 has been released, providing a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container that isolates the application from the rest of the system. Support for running Flatpak packages is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository and are supported […]
The company Jolla has released the Sailfish OS 3.2.1. The builds are prepared for Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Xperia XA2, Gemini, Sony Xperia 10 devices, and are already available as OTA updates. Sailfish uses a graphical stack based on Wayland and Qt5 libraries, with its system environment built on Mer, which has been developed as part of Sailfish since April, […]
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