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Weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video
- leosanchez 3y agoEven YouTube?
- tetris11 3y agoThe tweet says yes.
- anonacct37 3y agoAs someone who once had access to internal fleetwide profiling information, yes. There is older evidence based on quirks in encoding. https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/
- extraduder_ire 3y agoWhy would they use anything else? I don't think there's any other software close in terms of cost/features. (unless you count libAV, which is a fork of ffmpeg)
- sha-3 3y agohttps://nitter.net/FFmpeg/status/1710440696941809868 https://nitter.net/FFmpeg/status/1710440696941809868
- hnfong 3y agoReminds me of https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ To my knowledge Fabrice Bellard created two of those (ffmpeg and qemu)
- em-bee 3y agoneither are maintained by a single random person in the middle of nowhere. more like thanklessly maintained by a group of enthusiasts. but, more to your point (i assume), i suppose they could use more support, especially from large users like google.