Google's use of ffmpeg: https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/ For encoding, recently,

Google'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...