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ffmpeg is one software that comes to mind. At first it sounds and looks complicated, but all the internet video is ran by it, and now even for small stuff I use
by onehair 4y ago
ffmpeg is one software that comes to mind. At first it sounds and looks complicated, but all the internet video is ran by it, and now even for small stuff I use it with admiration
- aqfamnzc 4y agoCan you elaborate on "all the internet video is ran by it"?
- blahgeek 4y agoFor instance I found this old article "Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292 This may have changed for Youtube but I believe that a large portion of video services still uses ffmpeg under the hood.
- neop1x 4y agoMany online services use it for encoding, decoding, transcoding, cutting, merging and muxing video and audio formats. It implements a lot of codecs. It is often also used to generate video thumbnails. Its filters [1] are also very powerful to create complex chains of functionality. [1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html