Facebook Bolsters Immersive Video Content With New Video Encoding Technique, Releases Source Code

[kcarbotte]

Facebook Engineering revealed that it has developed a new encoding process that reduces the size of 360-degree video by as much as 25 percent, and 360-degree VR video by an astounding 80 percent. The source code is now on GitHub.

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[dstarr3]

Awesome, now all the Facebook pirates can post even better stolen content!

 

[Hashmael]

Spoiler Alert for Silicon Valley Season 3:
Facebook has bought out Pied Piper!

(P.S. I know Pied Piper is depicted as a format-agnostic lossless compression on the show, whatever)