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8 comments from 4 distinct recommending readers, between 2020 and 2022.
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FFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement. chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/thir…... Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/125853…
In Praise of FFmpegRead the thread - Recommends
I think it is worth posting Tom Vaughan [1]( Father of x265 )'s reply here. >FFMPEG is a media processing framework. It's great for simple media processing jobs (builds a graph, runs the graph). A build of "FFMPEG" includes that media processing framework plus dozens of open source libraries (filters) that do the actual work (x265, x265, libav, etc). >So "FFMPEG" gets a lot of well deserved credit (it's the framework that lots of applications and well-known services run), but the core FFMPEG is probably a tiny fraction of the development man-hours in a build of FFMPEG. It's all the linked libraries that make it useful. It is also worth stating this is from 2020. I am not sure why this is submitted now. [1] twitter.com/tmvn/status/125861030896211…
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)Read the thread - Recommends
This response reminds me of: twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/125853… Opensource/free software powers most of the stuff we take for granted. The software and their maintainers are equally taken-for-granted.
Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself - Recommends
John Carmack recently commented on the ubiquity of FFMPEG: twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/125853… FFMPEG is amazing. I don't think that it's the only game in town, but there it's the best by far.
FFmpeg 4.3Read the thread - Recommends
FFmpeg is one of those pieces of infrastructure that unpins modern media in such a fundamental way that it is hard to even imagine life without it. In the words of John Carmack: twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/125853…...
FFmpeg is 20 years old todayRead the thread - Cites it
It's interesting. I've heard apocryphally that FFmpeg is used in many production video systems (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/125853…). However, as far as I can tell, you can either use the quite low level libraries like libavfilter, or you can rely on the CLI tool. The former seems rather tedious; you have to set up the scaffolding yourself, chain all the demuxer to the filters to the muxer, etc. The latter is a very weird interface; you have to shell out to this CLI tool. Is that really the case?
Ffmpeg BuddyRead the thread - Cites it
Still waiting on Boz to respond: twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/125861…
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)Read the thread - Cites it
> It is also worth stating this is from 2020. I am not sure why this is submitted now. I came across it a day or two ago in a reply to @Suhail's thread of donating to OSS projects[0]. I suspect that's where the submitter saw it as well. [0] twitter.com/nurblieh/status/14736957762…
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)Read the thread