The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about thirteen times that much for a Mac mini, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
you can have the web browser open an external app to play the media full screen
Provided that said external app supports the media. Many sites offering HTML5 video use Media Source Extensions (MSE) so that the client has finer control of buffering and can deter receiving the body of the video before having received the message from the video's sponsor. But Wikipedia's article about MSE mentions nothing about VLC, nor does its article about VLC mention MSE.
Or are you claiming that MSE ought not be used, that VLC media player by itself handles buffering well and that the operator of a site showing a sponsored video ought to be able to afford to license HEVC? Or are sponsored videos themselves deprecated?
I'm sick of Company X promoting their product as a "standard", when in reality, they control the format (and its future) completely, in spite of the format being "open".
Which video format is both standard and royalty-free? If the answer is "none", how does it benefit the public for the answer to remain "none"?
If every site I read demands a $4 subscription to read even one article, and one day of searching finds 10 different articles from search results, one on each of 10 different domains, that's $40 blown in one day.
Since when does Wikipedia have ads, other than its pledge drive? If there are ads in articles, or ads as articles, edit them to remove soapbox content. You might be confusing Wikipedia with "Fandom powered by Wikia", a completely separate site.
The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about ten times that much for a Mac mini, even assuming he or she can use a keyboard and mouse from Goodwill and the living room TV as a monitor.
Were you referring to cutting off the Internet completely from 8 AM to midnight, the period during which access is metered, or cutting off access only to Windows Update? If the latter, how does the router determine whether a particular connection is associated with Windows Update, especially when the operating system uses its own resolver to find Microsoft's server?
The cron tool can be used to run a command at a given time, provided that the computer is on and the command exists.
The computer is on
This answer by jeff on Server Fault states that cron runs only if the computer is on, not if it is shut down or asleep. This means that if the computer is on at midnight but off at 8 AM, the policy will get set to not metered at midnight but not set back to metered at 8 AM. A tool that runs missed jobs after restart or resume exists, called anacron, but it doesn't handle tasks that must execute on a schedule more precise than once per day.
The command exists
What is the command to change a particular network connection's policy between assuming upstream is unmetered and assuming upstream is metered? This answer by philsf on Ask Ubuntu claims that this feature didn't exist as of January 2016. Has it been implemented since then?
Chrome for iOS and Firefox for iOS use the same Apple WebKit browser engine as Safari for iOS, with the same set of supported and unsupported video codecs. This means that if you fire up Chrome for iOS because you have found that a video is unsupported in Safari for iOS, you will find that it is still unsupported in Chrome for iOS.
isn't having the web browser render the video internally (without an external program/plugin) the entire point of the video tag?
True, it is the entire point of <video>. And it shows why sl3xd's suggestion to rely on VLC for iOS isn't an adequate substitute for support in the operating system for a video codec.
I was referring to the policy option in Windows and Android not to perform some background downloads over connections that the operating system believes to be metered. (See metered connections in Windows and metered connections in Android.) Which operating systems offer a way to make the operating system believe the connection to be metered only during certain hours?
Every torrent client I've ever used includes configuring it to work only during specified hours
I was referring to the lack of such a setting for things other than torrent clients, such as operating system updaters. See, for example, how caps affect users of Windows.
I think the claim was intended to relate to a transcode from high-bitrate source material to a lower-bitrate stream intended for distribution through the Internet. Settings for leading AVC and HEVC encoders that produce similar levels of visible distortion will produce a significantly lower bitrate with HEVC than with AVC.
Do Safari and other browsers wrapping WebKit for iOS allow embedding VLC for iOS as the player used for the <video> element? If not, how does the request to stream a video get from the browser to VLC?
If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away
Both Hulu and CBS All Access offer an ad-free option at not quite double the price of the pay-to-watch-commercials tier. When I quote the prices of Hulu and CBS All Access to others considering cutting the cord, I mention the ad-free price, not the paying-to-watch-commercials price.
What evidence do you have that the WebM Additional IP Rights Grant is insufficient to prevent users of VP9 from being "sued out of existence for patient infringement"?
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The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about thirteen times that much for a Mac mini, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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Would such scheduled tasks continue to toggle the DefaultMediaCost even if the computer is shut down or in suspend when the threshold time is crossed?
you can have the web browser open an external app to play the media full screen
Provided that said external app supports the media. Many sites offering HTML5 video use Media Source Extensions (MSE) so that the client has finer control of buffering and can deter receiving the body of the video before having received the message from the video's sponsor. But Wikipedia's article about MSE mentions nothing about VLC, nor does its article about VLC mention MSE.
Or are you claiming that MSE ought not be used, that VLC media player by itself handles buffering well and that the operator of a site showing a sponsored video ought to be able to afford to license HEVC? Or are sponsored videos themselves deprecated?
I'm sick of Company X promoting their product as a "standard", when in reality, they control the format (and its future) completely, in spite of the format being "open".
Which video format is both standard and royalty-free? If the answer is "none", how does it benefit the public for the answer to remain "none"?
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If their market is purely web based search, they are 75% of the market. Even closer.
And even that number might be skewed by the Great Firewall of China. What's the usage share of Google Search for English-language web search?
And you can try by IP, but Google spiders the web internationally from all over the place.
Then whitelist Google's international IP address blocks.
If every site I read demands a $4 subscription to read even one article, and one day of searching finds 10 different articles from search results, one on each of 10 different domains, that's $40 blown in one day.
Can't get you a free pony, but here's a pony for $10.
Part of it is to help me find relevant information that I can cite in my own publication without unduly appearing to be an ad for a subscription site.
It's a bit harder to also switch one's IP address to Google's spiders.
Since when does Wikipedia have ads, other than its pledge drive? If there are ads in articles, or ads as articles, edit them to remove soapbox content. You might be confusing Wikipedia with "Fandom powered by Wikia", a completely separate site.
The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about ten times that much for a Mac mini, even assuming he or she can use a keyboard and mouse from Goodwill and the living room TV as a monitor.
Please see my reply to techno-vampire.
Were you referring to cutting off the Internet completely from 8 AM to midnight, the period during which access is metered, or cutting off access only to Windows Update? If the latter, how does the router determine whether a particular connection is associated with Windows Update, especially when the operating system uses its own resolver to find Microsoft's server?
The cron tool can be used to run a command at a given time, provided that the computer is on and the command exists.
The computer is on This answer by jeff on Server Fault states that cron runs only if the computer is on, not if it is shut down or asleep. This means that if the computer is on at midnight but off at 8 AM, the policy will get set to not metered at midnight but not set back to metered at 8 AM. A tool that runs missed jobs after restart or resume exists, called anacron, but it doesn't handle tasks that must execute on a schedule more precise than once per day. The command exists What is the command to change a particular network connection's policy between assuming upstream is unmetered and assuming upstream is metered? This answer by philsf on Ask Ubuntu claims that this feature didn't exist as of January 2016. Has it been implemented since then?set a connection as metered. W
Chrome for iOS and Firefox for iOS use the same Apple WebKit browser engine as Safari for iOS, with the same set of supported and unsupported video codecs. This means that if you fire up Chrome for iOS because you have found that a video is unsupported in Safari for iOS, you will find that it is still unsupported in Chrome for iOS.
isn't having the web browser render the video internally (without an external program/plugin) the entire point of the video tag?
True, it is the entire point of <video>. And it shows why sl3xd's suggestion to rely on VLC for iOS isn't an adequate substitute for support in the operating system for a video codec.
the metering would be done by the ISP's own hardware
What service does the ISP offer to subscribers to query the metering schedule that its own hardware applies to a particular connection?
I was referring to the policy option in Windows and Android not to perform some background downloads over connections that the operating system believes to be metered. (See metered connections in Windows and metered connections in Android.) Which operating systems offer a way to make the operating system believe the connection to be metered only during certain hours?
Every torrent client I've ever used includes configuring it to work only during specified hours
I was referring to the lack of such a setting for things other than torrent clients, such as operating system updaters. See, for example, how caps affect users of Windows.
I think the claim was intended to relate to a transcode from high-bitrate source material to a lower-bitrate stream intended for distribution through the Internet. Settings for leading AVC and HEVC encoders that produce similar levels of visible distortion will produce a significantly lower bitrate with HEVC than with AVC.
Do Safari and other browsers wrapping WebKit for iOS allow embedding VLC for iOS as the player used for the <video> element? If not, how does the request to stream a video get from the browser to VLC?
If you are up for paying double to triple for your cable then cool, let the cable companies know right away
Both Hulu and CBS All Access offer an ad-free option at not quite double the price of the pay-to-watch-commercials tier. When I quote the prices of Hulu and CBS All Access to others considering cutting the cord, I mention the ad-free price, not the paying-to-watch-commercials price.
What evidence do you have that the WebM Additional IP Rights Grant is insufficient to prevent users of VP9 from being "sued out of existence for patient infringement"?