I owe a lot of what was accomplished to folks like DG and the other troopers from the bad ol' days of VFW based apps. It was like monkeys throwing rocks at the space ships compared to whats now. Remember when 2 cores was fast?
For the person up thread talking about learning things, I wish I was in that position today with them rather than 20 odd years ago where everyone was in the dark, and thank the heavens for sites like doom9 that shone lights in dark places!
Where would you start today?
And what was being circumvented? Copyright protection?
Where would I start today? That depends on your level of interest, and what you want to do. Are you wanting to learn things to do to stay hip and cool making videos for the socials, or are you wanting to do technical things to video for less prestigious ends? That's two different paths that intertwine, but different recommendations depending.
That's not a rhetorical question, btw. I've been in both fields, and continue to work in both. There's lots of reading, and today watching videos, but the biggest thing will be the access to actually doing the things that weren't possible so freely 20 years ago. Try things, make mistakes, learn, do again.
