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There'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.
by astrange 3y ago
There'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...