good stuff, podcast format is great, thanks.
Monday Monero Missives #24 - March 2nd, 2015
fluffypony posted this 9 years ago
This is the discussion thread for the Missives blog post
To download the podcast directly please use this link to the MP3.
A brief summary of the points discussed follows, and a full transcription of the podcast is on the blog post (currently WIP).
In this week's podcast we restart dev diaries, and focus on two things:
Updates on blockchainDB, including rationale, performance considerations, and future steps
Moving away from the old RPC system for talking to the daemon, to a 0MQ-based IPC system
Technical note: in order to make this Missive a little more accessible, given its technical nature, we have taken some liberties in using the term "RPC" to refer to the JSON RPC API 2.0 over HTTP system used when currently communicating with the daemon, and "IPC" to refer to a complete replacement of that subsystem with 0MQ subsystem based on their Router/Dealer pattern, using the zmq_tcp transport for compatability.
External Projects has moved to be covered next week. Until then!
Side note: Gingeropolous and I have finally received decent microphones, and we expect next week's podcast to be of a substantially higher production quality. Final mixing and encoding is done in Adobe Audition, and released as an MP3 at 128kbps CBR. If anyone has alternative formats they would like us to add (AAC etc.) please let us know in the comments and we will be sure to include them.
VBR would be better, no? Also, Opus would be interesting, since it is both open-source and technically superior, especially for speech.
VBR wouldn't make a substantial difference to the file size (within ~500kb for the same quality) and breaks the track time on many players. MP3 is incredibly universally accessible, across devices and across operating systems, and speech does just fine at 64kbps mono - doubling that up is more than what most will need.
Opus is great, but the lack of broad support means it's worthless as anything but an additional transcoded format at this stage, which means more work for little value. AAC/MP4 is also great, and we may provide that as an additional format later, but MP3 is still a great deal more universal than AAC.