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WINK Streaming: Advanced Camera Encoding & Transcoding for Traffic, Security & Public Surveillance. Now, with AI-based Video Analytics. #Innovation

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WINK Streaming's Public Eye Solution for Sharing Cameras on the Web and Mobile. Great for Cities, Municipalities, Large HOA's etc.

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We built a free SDP/RTP Analyzer; generate, parse, and validate SDP for H.264/H.265 streams. Decode SPS/PPS, parse RTSP DESCRIBE responses, catch SDP errors instantly. No login required. https://t.co/9C3CohovMx
#RTSP #RTP #VideoStreaming #IPCameras

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Free CLI tools for streaming engineers:

RTSP Stats → packet loss, jitter, clock drift
HLS Stats → CDN detection, cache analysis, throughput P50/P95
RTP Dump → jitter buffer that fixes 5%+ reordering

No install. Single binary. All platforms.

https://t.co/wbngnB8B0j

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🎄✨ Merry Christmas from WINK Streaming!

Wishing our partners, customers, and friends a joyful holiday season and a bright year ahead. Thank you for trusting us to keep critical video flowing! Here’s to innovation, reliability, and success in the new year. 🎁📡

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New free tool: WINK RTSP Stats. Analyze RTSP/RTP streams in real-time without decoding video. See packet loss, jitter, bitrate, and timing issues instantly.

CLI for Windows, macOS & Linux. (ARM & X86)
https://t.co/qUT00i1EEg

#RTSP #IPCameras #Streaming #NetworkTools

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WINK Forge 9.0 is here! Redesigned interface, faster HLS/WebRTC/SRT performance, and a preview of our MoQ alpha with sub-300ms latency.

https://t.co/BYDJpxcLPI

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The video codec compression wars are over. AV2 and H.266 aren't revolutionizing video; they're just blurring it.

Real innovation: understanding what matters when encoding.

Deep dive: https://t.co/rSwNeRDkQ6

#VideoCompression #H264

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I had been meaning to comment on @Jonathan_Blow’s “Why can’t we even conceive of writing a new OS today” post. Coincidentally, I just got an email that opened with:

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Hey John,

2 years ago I pitched you LIBBA - a dedicated OS for smart glasses.

You were sceptical, your main concern was that a custom OS rarely justifies itself: cost, shelf life, and developer burden outweigh the benefits.

You were right.
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I deeply love the ideals of clear, efficient programs that do their job without baggage, and I have always been very sympathetic to efforts like Oberon, Plan 9, and even TempleOS.

But building a new operating system today doesn’t make any product sense.

Meta spent a lot of resources working on a fully custom XROS, over my rather strenuous objections. They had top tier engineering talent, tons of support, and they were producing high quality code and docs. It was a best case scenario from a “new OS” perspective, and, as one of the engineers put it, “If we can’t do it, who could?”

I wish I could drop (so many of) my old internal posts publicly, since I don’t really have the incentive to relitigate the arguments today – they were carefully considered and prescient. They also got me reported to HR by the manager of the XROS effort for supposedly making his team members feel bad, but I expect many of them would acknowledge in hindsight that the Meta products would not be in a better place today if the new OS effort had been rammed into them.

I can only really see a new general purpose OS arriving due to essentially sacrificing a highly successful product’s optimality to the goal of birthing the new OS, and I wouldn’t do that myself as a stakeholder. To make something really different, and not get drawn into the gravity well of existing solutions, you practically need an isolated monastic order of computer engineers. Which was sort of Plan 9…

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I quickly rehashed a few of the arguments off the top of my head for the LIBBA folks a couple years ago. My half of the exchanges:
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I argued strenuously against building a fully custom XR OS inside Meta, and I still don't think it is a good idea.The benefits that a custom OS can bring are outweighed by the development costs and burden placed on new platform developers.
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I always felt that the ultra-constrained-platform argument for a new OS wasn't very good.  If the platform really needs to watch every cycle that tightly, you aren't going to be a general purpose platform, and you might as well just make a monolithic C++ embedded application, rather than a whole new platform that is very likely to have a low shelf life as the hardware platform evolves.

Foveated rendering is arguably a net loss on Quest Pro vs just using that same power to run the GPU at a higher clock speed.  In no way is it a dramatic win.  I can imagine scenarios where it wins, but the wins are harder than most people expect.  For today's see-through AR, the field of view isn't big enough to justify it even in the best cases.

SCHED_FIFO and friends are already good enough for real time performance on Linux derived systems.

I agree that there is a good place for SLAM to adaptively turn down to just tracking a few points on a single camera when the head is nearly stationary, and this would be valuable,
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I am all for building something from scratch to directly satisfy user needs. The mistake that I see people making when talking about building a new OS is believing that the creation of a new platform will be a draw for third party developers to commit resources.  If you aren't counting on that, and all OS efforts are because they will directly enable your own first party value creation, then great -- although I am still skeptical about the AR value proposition with today's technology.
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Hey @Cloudflare - loved your MoQ CDN launch! We just shipped production ready opensource MoQ code for @MediaMTX with 200ms latency 🚀

Demo: https://t.co/MqBBVNHPMJ
Code: https://t.co/NhEhMkSJGv

#MoQ #WebTransport @QUIC

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🎉 WINK ONVIF Studio 1.2 is live!

✨ ONVIF Profile T with 2-way audio
🍎 macOS, Windows & Linux
🔒 SSL/TLS for self-signed certs
📹 Archives & event monitoring
🔄 Auto-updates

Enterprise features, zero cost.

Download: https://t.co/rvqqn3G88e

#ONVIF

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📚 Big news! We've made our technical documentation publicly available after 20 years of video streaming expertise.

Check it out: https://t.co/XQcKvvArzE

#VideoStreaming #TechDocs

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WINK Streaming: EOL announced for WINK Encoder & WINK Walll; but with a record 7 years of free security updates (till Dec 2031)! Feature support ends Oct 2026. Setting a new bar for reliability as clients migrate to the cloud. https://t.co/726IXpvnjB
#Streaming #SmartCity

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Announcing WINK Media Router 3.0! The enterprise platform for secure, real-time video at scale. Stream & bridge any protocol with encrypted low latency.
Replace complex legacy systems and deploy anywhere: cloud, on-prem, or hybrid! #LiveStreaming More: https://t.co/Z1J1f1NyfE

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Apoyo al alcalde Francisco González y a Garabito para garantizar acceso público a Playa Blanca y Mantas! Las playas son de todos por la Ley 6043. #PlayasPúblicas #Garabito #AlcaldeFranciscoGonzález #MunicipalidadGarabito #PlayaBlanca

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📢 Just released: WINK ONVIF Studio - Our new free ONVIF Device Manager for security pros! Full PTZ control, multi-camera testing, and password probing. Available now for Windows & Mac (Linux coming soon). Download at https://t.co/0KXtWTOvBz #ONVIF #SecurityTech #CCTV

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📢 WINK Streaming now supports AV1 encoding & decoding up to 8K! 🚀 Up to 40% better compression with HDR, wide color gamut, and seamless integration across WINK products. Pioneering next-gen video tech for unmatched quality! [Details: https://t.co/7J4JKE4J6y] #8K #AV1

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🎉 We've revamped https://t.co/OgtaM2YPws! Discover our video solutions for transcoding, live encoding, video walls & mobile apps. From traffic cameras to security integration - see how we're powering video delivery worldwide. #VideoStreaming #SecurityTech #Surveillance

[Marcelo Solano Ortiz @msolartiz]

#Concierto #EstadioNacional En aceras, en contra vía, en jardineras, en esquinas, en doble carril y frente a cocheras. 100 conductores regresan a sus casas sin placas. C.6 millones en multas por mal estacionamiento. #PolicíaMunicipalSJO

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"

Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"

Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"

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Exciting news from WINK Streaming! Check out our brand-new website at https://t.co/ZBdZtCFLM2. Visit now to explore all the latest updates about our video transcoding and analytic solutions!