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Originally Posted by spiderplant
The answer is "it varies". But I think it's all digital these days.
Advanced codecs take longer to encode because they work on many video frames in parallel. The allows them to find common patterns across mutiple frames, and so increase the compression. But the more frames they scan, the more they have to buffer, so the delay increases. It's unlikely to ever get quicker, as this would reduce the compression or compromise picture quality.
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You never know, over the years they've managed to increase compression efficiencies on Freeview to squeeze in more channels into the same amount of capacity.
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Originally Posted by multiskilled
Think I would rather have the extra delay before I find out I had just blown the mortgage payment on the 2:30 at Kempton  |
Ha ha, wouldn't it be useful if the bookie was using a two minute delayed system and you weren't 🤗