[HN Gopher] SVT Encore - Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
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SVT Encore - Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
Author : unicornporn
Score : 46 points
Date : 2021-05-08 07:58 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| kalleboo wrote:
| Since it's probably not clear to most HN readers, this is
| maintained by the Swedish public broadcaster (SVT: Sveriges
| Television) which provides a video streaming service (similar to
| BBC iPlayer) at https://www.svtplay.se
|
| The documentation has a story about how the project came about
| (as a replacement for the proprietary system they were using)
| https://svt.github.io/encore-doc/#projecthistory
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| I was assuming it was part of Intel's SVT encoder project
|
| https://01.org/svt
| guerrilla wrote:
| Speaking of that, today is the last day to see the 24/7 "slow
| TV" streaming of the moose crossing the stream [1].
|
| https://www.svtplay.se/video/30837126/den-stora-algvandringe...
| cpach wrote:
| Not sure if it's georestricted or not, but if it is that's
| probably easily solvable with Mullvad VPN or a similar
| service.
| novium wrote:
| It's also on twitch, shouldn't be geoblocked there
| https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow
| guerrilla wrote:
| It's not for the US, Denmark and Swtizerland at least.
| cpach wrote:
| Great. I guess they mostly do that for stuff they don't
| own themselves.
| guerrilla wrote:
| I think so actually, stuff they're getting a license from
| someone else for.
| donpark wrote:
| Verified access from US although I think they ran out of
| moose.
| guerrilla wrote:
| Most of the time, you only see them (or other animals)
| rarely, but sometimes there are a bunch non-stop. That's
| how it is.
| cpach wrote:
| Literally my tax money at work :-p
| 3np wrote:
| I guess you mean your radio license money? SVT is not funded by
| taxes.
| sagolikasoppor wrote:
| It for sure is, you can see it on your tax declaration.
| cpach wrote:
| It used to be funded by a license but the parliament had a
| vote in 2018 which changed that, so it's now funded by taxes.
| capableweb wrote:
| A quick search would have led you to the Wikipedia page,
| where the first paragraph is the following
|
| > [SVT] is the Swedish national public television
| broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal
| income set by the Riksdag (national parliament)
| https://www.regeringen.se/regeringens-politik/medier/ny-
| avgi...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Television
| [deleted]
| alkonaut wrote:
| *license. Not tax. A distinction that is subtle but still
| important.
| sagolikasoppor wrote:
| It used to be a license but then they switched to taking the
| money directly from every tax paying adult, thus increasing
| their budget with a couple of billion SEK.
| georgiecasey wrote:
| Was this because license revenue dropped? They want to do
| the same in Ireland
| jontro wrote:
| In the long run it would've. It was mandatory to pay if
| you owned a TV. They tried to collect it for people
| having laptops / mobile phones but it was ruled illegal
| in the courts.
|
| Instead the government replaced it with a new tax which
| seems more fair.
| sagolikasoppor wrote:
| I would say so, yes. As another commentator said they
| tried to get more people to pay but failed and then
| instead used corrupt politicians to do their bidding.
|
| I didn't use to pay, now I have no choice.
| alkonaut wrote:
| It's _still_ a license or "fee", not a tax. What changed is
| who they charge it _from_ and how it's collected (now
| through the same method as taxes).
|
| The license being charged from every taxpayer and collected
| using tax collection mechanisms _doesn't make it a tax_.
|
| The difference is that a tax would be collected into the
| budget and SVT would be funded through the budget.
|
| A license on the other hand is paid directly to the public
| service companies which (in theory) gives some amount of
| political independence.
|
| So: license, not tax.
|
| It might look to some like a useless distinction "how is
| money paid on my tax bill not a tax!?", but there is an
| important difference.
| svrtknst wrote:
| But its funded by the tax, ergo it literally is their tax
| money at work here.
| alkonaut wrote:
| But I just explained how the fee being on the tax bill
| does _not_ make it a tax, since the definition would be
| "part of the tax budget" not "money collected the same
| way as taxes".
|
| Which part of what I'm saying are you disagreeing with,
| and why?
| cpach wrote:
| The distinction matters in some aspects - e.g. other
| government agencies can most probably not take the money
| collected for SVT/SR/UR and use it for other means.
|
| However, a compulsory fee that is forced upon every adult
| that has an income, even if that person doesn't own a TV
| and never utilize the services of SVT/SR/UR, then add to
| this that the fee is collected by the Swedish Tax Agency
| - to me that surely meets the definition of a tax.
| filleokus wrote:
| I reject the universality of your definition. How the
| government spend the collected revenue can't (and isn't)
| the singular requirement on deciding wether something is
| a tax or a fee in many circumstances.
|
| For example OECD has definitions they use when comparing
| tax revenue between countries, loosely explained here
| [0]. OECD count the public service fee as a fee, but I'm
| guessing that other things that your definition might
| categorise as fees are counted as taxes (e.g parts of the
| compulsory contribution to socialised welfare systems
| that the employer pays).
|
| To further complicate things, the Swedish government via
| the ESV seem to categorise the public service fee as a
| tax [1]. EDIT: This probably describe the reasoning [2]
|
| (But I don't think anyone would argue that e.g the church
| fee is a tax, since it's voluntary and the government
| have no ability to spend it at all, even though it's
| collected via the taxing system).
|
| [0]: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/oecd-
| classification-taxe... (p. 320) [1]: https://www.esv.se/c
| ontentassets/9d641ba02ce246189306a1c50a2... (p. 91). [2]:
| https://scb.se/contentassets/237f5d71840c4b6b84b147514dba
| 4d3...
| SahAssar wrote:
| Seems like it is essentially a job queue for video transcoding?
| jack_riminton wrote:
| Yeah some examples of what you can do with it would help
| tgv wrote:
| That's what it looks like. Scalable, though. Might be good for
| burst-like processing.
| maxekman wrote:
| As a Swede I was not expecting the (for us familiar) SVT
| abbreviation to show up here. I definitely expected that it was
| some other org with the same name! Nice surprise.
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