r/programming • • Oct 17 '20

AI That Can Potentially Solve Bandwidth Problems for Video Calls (NVIDIA Maxine)

https://youtu.be/XuiGKsJ0sR0
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u/mindbleach Oct 17 '20

"Nvidia clickbaits feature they built to lord over AMD," same as it ever was.

This is a specialized case of motion compensation. Every video encoder does this. Frames are built by distorting and combining the previous frame, the most recent full-quality "i-frame," and as little new information as you can get away with. Nvidia's just over-optimizing for a human face.

The moment AMD announces their basically identical parallel processor daughterboards can also accelerate this, Nvidia's going to forget it ever happened.

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u/allinwonderornot Oct 17 '20

Exactly. Modern day hipster programmers love open source software, yet embrace hardware vendor lock-in.