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Where’s the love for ffmpeg?
by tclancy 6y ago
Where’s the love for ffmpeg?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoffmpeg is great. I use it to transcode videos that our users upload directly from their phones from HEVC (H.265) to AVC1 (H.264) - it’s painless: just asynchronously shell-invoke it from Java, .NET, etc. I’m surprised it works well even in tightly locked-down sandboxed environments like Azure App Services (nee Azure Websites). It’s saved my org thousands of dollars we’d have otherwise spent on something like Azure Media Services. It “just works” and I’ve never had it fail to process any legitimate video file. Props to ffprobe too - that’s part of our file upload + identification + sanitation process.
- hjkhj7878 6y agoIsn't H.256 the successor to H.264? Wouldn't H.264 use more space?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoChrome doesn’t support H.265 by-design, even if it’s host OS supports it, because Google is trying hard to encourage people to use the (purportedly) patent unencumbered WebM format and codec instead. In summary: H.264 has the widest adoption of all modern video formats. H.265 is Microsoft + Apple. WebM is Google and Firefox. H.266 came out a few weeks ago.