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YouTube does not use ffmpeg, at the scale at which they operate it would be too slow / expensive. They use custom hardware just for encoding. fyi they have to
by Thaxll 3y ago
YouTube does not use ffmpeg, at the scale at which they operate it would be too slow / expensive.
They use custom hardware just for encoding.
fyi they have to transcode over 500h of videos per minute. So multiple that by all the formats they support.
They operate at an insane scale, Netflix looks like a garage project for comparison.
- astrange 3y agoThere's still decoding. If a service claims to support all kinds of weird formats (like a MOV or AVI from the 90s) that means ffmpeg is running.
- canucker2016 3y agoGoogle's use of ffmpeg: https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ For encoding, recently, they've built their own ASIC to deal with H264 and VP9 encoding (for 7-33x faster encoding compared to CPU-only): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-build...
- bagels 3y agoFacebook does, and contributes to ffmpeg.