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It just boggles my mind that the front page of a page that offers a "patented vector-transcoder converts video to a vector format, reducing bitrates" doesn't include such video on its front page.

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Well, it's not at the top of the page, but they did include a short proof-of-concept video of the Simpsons at the bottom of the page.

https://files.vectorly.io/demo/v0-2-simpsons-250kbps/index.h...

The video always plays at a (large) fixed size... which is unfortunate for a vector data source, scaling should be relatively easy for such a file format.

(Edit: I just notice the full-screen button on the video, I really think they should be emphasizing that, since vector video should be able to stay smooth at extreme resolutions)

Resizeable link! Previous one was a bug

https://files.vectorly.io/demo/resizeable/index.html

We're still not comfortable putting demos on our front page, for all the bugs everyone's mentioned, and other issues.

Not even sure who posted this on HN, but grateful for the attention / feedback!

It would be useful to detect browsers that don't work at all (e.g. Safari) and at least warn that it's coming. Right now it doesn't inspire much confidence...

When I press full-screen I just get the same video in top-right 25% corner and the rest filled with black.

This is from The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXIII", Season 24 episode 2. This segment starts at 14:45 on the Disney+ version.

There's a relatively low-quality cut on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ehuHRnC4Q

That is broken on my computer :(

Seems to work best in Firefox, then Chrome has a few more glitches, and is totally broken in Safari

I suspect that they only focused on particular versions of Chrome during development because it's a proof of concept.

Then they shouldn't be making the claim that "this codec wouldn't require end-users, OEMs or browsers to install special software to enable playback of these videos." If I have to install a browser I don't normally use, then it requires installing special software.

Yeah, but it is Windows 10 on the latest chrome... pictures other people have linked look cool though.

Seems to work fine on Win 10 and latest chrome for me. I wonder if it might be related to turning on/off the GPU rendering in chrome maybe?

works on Firefox here for me

There's also a "Khan Academy"-style demo:

https://files.vectorly.io/demo/khan-20kbps/index.html

Tons of artifacts, low framerate.

It boggles your mind that “we are still in the early stages of developing this technology” does not include said technology on the front page? Some research projects are just not suitable to be shown on the front page at every point of their development.

There is a demo page, it's just that the link to it is buried right at the bottom. You'd think that it'd be better to just embed it on the page itself.

It boggles my mind that they slough off the showstoppers of previous attempts with throwaway lines. Nobody has any reason to believe they know what they’re doing.

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