>Start piracy streaming site
>Encode everything as MPEG-5 baseline

@j this is a joke that @j would probably like, since he knows a lot about video encoding.

i don't understand it. i'm not @j

@Nepiant @j
Well, apparently MPEG-5 is actually a new(ish) video codec standard, but it hasn't been used anywhere so far, and there's probably no real plan for anyone to use it anytime soon.
So the joke might be that he's encoding stuff in a codec that you might not even be able to play back.

Another part of the joke might be related to the "baseline" part. A description from the only encoder that might exist so far:
"The "Baseline profile" contains only technologies that are older than 20 years or otherwise freely available for use in the standard".
This makes it sound like baseline doesn't actually feature anything unique to MPEG5, and other more mainstream codecs could perform the same thing as MPEG5 baseline.
So in other words, he'd be encoding in an obscure codec, but doing it in a way where he won't even gain any benefit from it. It would be like a technological oxymoron, if I understood this correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Video_Coding
https://github.com/mpeg5/xeve

@alyx @j halfway through reading your response i was planning on accusing you of using ai to generate it, but as i kept reading i realized that your response was definitely too nuanced for that.

good response! thank you.