Say what you want about Jesse "The Governor" Ventura, but they guy has an uncanny ability (at times) to make sense of things. The latest on his views of education in Minnesota can be found here in the Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune. Now if ol' Jesse thinks the numbers of school administrators is a problem, wait till he sees how much they make... I don't fault people for going out and trying to earn a good living, but in the realm of public education the payscales too often seem unbalanced.
Effects of Handbrake presets and RF quality settings across AV1, H.265, and H.264
"Fantastic!" Every once in a great while, I dive deep down the rabbit hole of media formats and the codecs 1 that encode and decode them. Sometimes it's photos, sometimes it's audio, and this time it's video. I'm no expert in these things, but rather an enthusiast who (a) likes to create and organize digital media and (b) likes knowing that the formats I'm choosing are going to meet my present and future needs. In the past few months I've been adding Blu-ray movies to my media server. I've relied on H.264/AVC as my video format for a long time (more than a decade, maybe?), but with H.265/HEVC now pretty mainstream and AV1 emerging, I figured it was time to refresh my knowledge and get to know how these different tools might serve me. This is going to be a long post, so I'm going to take a moment here to establish the four considerations I make whenever I'm encoding media, whether it's video, audio, or photos. The four consider...