sureeee. I am gonna press x.

I dont think usa was secular ever (in the france kind of secular).

but if you mean that religious extremism retoric have become the norm in US , that is correct and kinda obvious.

to be honest I can’t even fault the folk that are christian Zionist (an weird combo) because a lot of money have been poured into it. And if last decade in US shown anything is that money(greed) is king.

and I don’t think this is reversible because the rich elites in USA are getting more and more concentrated power and put more money into those extremists.

a good example is just observing oracle founder Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel and palanter Alex Karp owner and others like them and see them become even more ghoul-like and very direct and if you face. they no longer cover up their inhuman genocidal ideas behind interest groups and shell think-tanks.

way less than jewish isis having nuke and acting like barbaric god chosen people.

way less than germany or japan. if you think they are reformed… then sure america was reformed after it killed all the native americans.

go watch any real politikcs about iran and nuke like john mershaimer. maybe you learn some history.

I judge conutries and regimes by their acts. in international arena iran behaved way better than all the other countires you named.

I am trying to show you some points.

all those you call secular governments in west like uk usa france germany and so on, did and continue to do invasions war crimes and atrocity world over.

so I don’t get your obsession with non-secular countries, and thinking that only non-secular countries are capable of good.

whatever my government does , doesn’t even get near to level of what Israel did for the last 80 years and especially last two years.

and all those “secular” countries supported israel completely with actions (words are useless)

israel is a secular country? if so that is news to their government which read from their religious texts when they do an genocide and war crimes. if you have not head that it is because you are ignorant. and those secular regimes is west are completely fine with them doing it.

so I don’t think west care about religious genocide if their buddies commit it.

and my country needs the nukes to survive as history has shown western regimes treaties are not worth the paper that it is written on. if jcpoa didnt show that nothing will. they bombed who they want and kill whoever they want.

be better informed and don’t be fox news level of ignorant.

if palestine shown anything is that the collective west didnt grow out of any of its bad habits.

whole of west got behind destroying syria so that “assad” should go because he was bad. because assa “bombed hostpitals and you wouldnt do that even to kill Al-Qaeda terrorists”

now he is replaced with Al-Qaeda commander and he gets welcomed in france and usa. and jewish isis gets to bomb every hospital and university and be the animal that they are because “khamas”.

if you think western regime goals is “saving gays” or something like that you are retarded.

if Libya Syria Afghanistan and of course the best of them saudi arabia was not enough to show you what is the most important foreign goals of eu and usa, I can’t help you.

I mean I am sure usa germany and japan are the most peace loving countries in the last century. unlike iran that literally didnt start a war in that last 200 years.

sorry.

from my perspective my country needs nukes the most of the “Candidates”

“virgins in the afterworld” as an irainian the first time I heard that was from a stand up comedy from Robin Williams.

don’t believe the bullshit.

jewish isis already has, so…

even russia purged a lot of oligarchs (for their own reasons). in USA both parties are oligarch parties, just different competing ones.

it seems that only my country (iran) having nukes is bad.

really? I remember his position about jewish ISIS differently.

Did they have makeup sex?

he is “president” now?

never forget that yesterday terrorists used to destroy Syria is now an “elected” leader.

Did you know that is the reason my country (Iran) voted no to this resolution?

because Iran backs one state that everyone lives in it and refugees have come back.

oh dont get me wrong. as I said I agree with most of your original (and now second post).

my gripe with grain was not about av1 per se. it was with movie makers that add it just because they think it is how movies should be

this is retarded to me: “Reasons to Keep Film Grain On: Artistic Effect: Film grain can add a nostalgic or artistic quality to video and photography, evoking a classic film look” because the reason is just “nostalgic” that the director has, as in if he was born after digital era, he would have an issue with it and not add it (usually).

about h264 and transparency, the issue is not that h264 can get that but at high bitrate, the issue is that av1 (as I read) can’t get it at any bitrate.

but overall I agree with you.

I even recently was shocked to see how much faster av1 encoding has gotten. I would have thought it was still orders of magnitude, but with some setting (like x265 slow setting) av1 is has the same encoding speed.

I want to agree with you and I do to a large extend. I like new codecs and having more opensourcy coded is better than using a codec that has many patents. long term patents(current situation) slows technological progress.

what I don’t agree with you is some details.

first, Netflix youtube and so on need low bitrate and they (specially google/youtube) don’t care that much about quality. google youtube video are really bit starved for their resolutions. netflix is a bit better.

second, many people when they discuss codecs they are referring to a different use case for them. they are talking about archiving. as in, the best quality codec at a same size. so they compare original (raw video, no lossy codec used) with encoded ones. their conclusion is that av1 is great for size reduction, but cant beat h264 for fidelity at any size. I think that h264 has a placebo or transparent profile but av1 doesn’t.

so when I download a fi…I mean a linux ISO from torrents, I usually go for newest codec. but recently I don’t go for the smallest size because it takes away from details in the picture.

but if I want to archive a movie (that I like a lot, which is rare) I get the bigger h264 (or if uhd blueray h265).

third: a lot of people’s idea of codec quality is formed based on downloading or streaming other people’s encoded videos and they themself don’t compare the quality (as they don’t have time or a good raw video to compare).

4th: I have heard av1 has issues with film grain, as in it removes them. film grain is an artifact of physical films (non-digital) that unfortunately many directors try (or used to) to duplicate because they grew up watching movies on films and think that movies should be like so they add them in in post production. even though it is literally a defect and even human eyes doesn’t duplicate it so it is not even natural. but this still is a bug of av1 (if I read correctly) because codec should go for high fidelity and not high smoothness.

you didn’t do the wrong thing.

what many people don’t notice is that support for a codec in gpu(in hardware) is two part. one is decoding and one is encoding.

for quality video nobody does hardware encoding (at least not on consumer systems linux this 3050 nvidia)

for most users the important this is hardware support for decoding so that they can watch their 4k movie with no issue.

so you are in the clear.

you can watch av1 right now and when av2 becomes popular enough to be used in at least 4 years from now.

“Train your replacement” USA edition.

I am not one bit surprised because I saw their stance on Palestine .

maybe, maybe not.

when h264 was introduced (Aug 2004), even intel had HW encoding for it with sandybridge in 2011. nvidia had at 2012

so less than 7 years.

av1 was first introduced 7 years ago and for at least two years android TVs require HW decoding for it.

And AMD rdna2 had the same 4 years ago.

so from introduction to hardware decoding it took 3 years.

I have no idea why 10 years is thrown around.

and av1 had to compete with h264 and h265 both. ( they had to decide if it was worth implementing it)