From 97b0c75516a836fb4a3c46bd9dc1720967c5f3c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:26:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 2016 README updates. --- README | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 62c99d0..8e47db7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ OK, I can read a bit. What do you mean by “modern”? Backwards compatibility is fine and all, but sometimes we can do better by observing that the world has moved on. In particular: -* It's 2015, so people want to edit HD video. -* It's 2015, so everybody has a GPU. -* It's 2015, so everybody has a working C++ compiler. +* It's 2016, so people want to edit HD video. +* It's 2016, so everybody has a GPU. +* It's 2016, so everybody has a working C++ compiler. (Even Microsoft fixed theirs around 2003!) -While from a programming standpoint I'd love to say that it's 2015 +While from a programming standpoint I'd love to say that it's 2016 and interlacing does no longer exist, but that's not true (and interlacing, hated as it might be, is actually a useful and underrated technique for -bandwidth reduction in broadcast video). Movit will eventually provide +bandwidth reduction in broadcast video). Movit may eventually provide limited support for working with interlaced video; it has a deinterlacer, but cannot currently process video in interlaced form. @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ decoding. Exactly what speeds you can expect is of course highly dependent on your GPU and the exact filter chain you are running. As a rule of thumb, you can run a reasonable filter chain (a lift/gamma/gain operation, -a bit of diffusion, maybe a vignette) at 720p in around 30 fps on a two-year-old +a bit of diffusion, maybe a vignette) at 720p in around 30 fps on a four-year-old Intel laptop. If you have a somewhat newer Intel card, you can do 1080p -video without much problems. And on a mid-range nVidia card of today +video without much problems. And on a low-range nVidia card of today (GTX 550 Ti), you can probably process 4K movies directly. -- 2.39.2