Once it's packaged to HLS, it becomes an issue of how well the backing blossom server(s) can manage a 1MB (avg 1080p 10s segment size in h.264) download every 10s for however many users.

If HEVC is used, the server(s) should be able to handle even more.

So the difference between a 10s clip and a 100 hour live stream is simply a question of how many concurrent downloads can be supported by the served.

The client/player doesn't care, it typically only ever needs to hold 1 windows' worth of segments.

Gotcha. If you get a chance, take a moment to run what I said above through an AI. You have a chance to do this on-device, forever free and sovereign and no 3rd party.. once its in HLS, there's all kinds of cool things that can be done. Like NostrTV.

Source: over a decade working on streaming video codec tech.

Will you be transcoding on the device or somewhere external? Or segmenting as-is?

You could segment the video based on IDR frames, alone. This avoids a transcode. I think ffmpeg will do this.

The downside is that you can get some really long segments that players dislike. But, for the most part, I think it should work across players/devices. Plus, you can parallelize the uploads/downloads to take strain off of the device.

I don't think printing is going to fix anything this time. The can has been kicked all the way to the reserve currency/asset of the world. The next step is ruin either via hyperinflation (Weimar style) or complete destruction of the current financial system (end of Rome style).

And unfortunately, this will be realized through economic games running into physical constraints: food, energy, medicine. We are there now.

Yeah, people who move over to hard assets will be ok. The rest of the world will be forced into adoption.

There is a bit of idolotry with bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a gift, and we should be thankful for it and be good stewards. But we shouldn't forget where it came from.

All good things originate from our Lord.

All that said, its been really comforting seeing the amount of faith among the people of sovereign-focused communities. I see more faith here than any other community.

I probably still have it along with other comics from my youth in storage. Kinda miss the newsprint smell of old comic shops.

I have an old copy from the early 90s as one big graphic novel, which is easier to come by.

Its super interesting. There's a whole notes section at the end that reads like an encyclopedia and predicts not just kinds of tech we now have today, but the evolution of that tech up to this point and beyond. For example, laptops -> mobile handhelds -> wearables -> subdermal devices -> wetware.

And this was written by one guy in the mid 80s.

I know people want nostr to grow.. but I am pretty happy that its not a cash cow for influencers and scammers. It means the bulk of what you run into are real posts by real people giving really hot takes.

As influencers take over, my usage of nostr for already-limited social media intake will just evaporate.

I keep seeing pics of the d-pad style vs the thumbstick. Which hat is that? Or is it a custom PCB?

The way narcissism works is that they gaslight and gaslight until success. If caught, you get the fake apology followed by love bombing the accuser. Repeat until success or the mark leaves. If the mark leaves, find a new mark.

I put all influencers in this bucket by default. Few earn their way out. Those that do have my respect.

This has worked wonders.

Whats sad is watching everyone else get gaslit. Poor fools.

Even more infuriating when one manages to catch you off guard and make you the fool.

Give some more details!

That looks reasonable - what token rates are you getting?

Quantized to what?

Whats your service stack?

What mobo + CPU (or pcie gen)?

Gresham's law completely lost on most folks.