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Huge congrats to Bellard and other ffmpeg contributors. This is a testament to the maturity and stability of FFmpeg. If FFmpeg were not mature or stable enough,
by k_sze 6y ago
Huge congrats to Bellard and other ffmpeg contributors. This is a testament to the maturity and stability of FFmpeg. If FFmpeg were not mature or stable enough, it would never have been selected for use on Perseverance, because any bug that manifests itself while on Mars would be catastrophic, as there is a minimum of 6-minute roundtrip for light to travel between Mars and Earth.
- lmilcin 6y agoYou do understand they have ability to replace almost all of the software? So a problem with ffmpeg would be a nuisance at worst.
- jimktrains2 6y agoWhile I agree that they're probably not running ffmpeg on a flight/control system and that they do update the software from the earth after launch -- in fact, they did it soon after landing to switch to the ground software from the flight software -- I think it's possible to be more generous to OP's overarching point: even if you can, you don't want to have to debug and update buggy software, even non-critical software, running on another planet and that ffmpeg's stability and capability make it an excellent choice.
- liquidify 6y agoOnly issue with ffmpeg that I've ever had is that there are hundreds of legacy blogs and stack overflow solutions that show some old version of how to use whatever feature I currently need.