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Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?

by larodi 1y ago

pledg 1y ago
libcurl?
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]
encom 1y ago
libc :D
npteljes 1y ago
It's up there in the hall of fame, that's for sure!
zaik 1y ago
You can check, at least for Arch Linux: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages
_kb 1y ago
You can pull the nix logs from here: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/main/metrics/fastly/README.md https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/main/metrics/fastly/READ... Could be an interesting data source to explore that opinion.
PokestarFan 1y ago
FFMpeg is probably not as up high since video processing only needs to be done on the servers that receive media. I doubt most phones are running FFMpeg on video.
- larodi 1y ago
  Well I would imagine portions of it are on every mobile device, and also Netflix and alike surely use it to encode video.
- neRok 1y ago
  Chrome and Firefox use FFmpeg libraries to decode media, so it's in more places than you might think! (But also, ChatGPT said it's not used in Android browser apps because they would use Android's "native" media stack).
zvr 1y ago
Curl should be up there, and "SSL" might be lower because of different implementations would split the numbers.
- larodi 1y ago
  Curl perhaps yes, but it employs zlib and libssl to operate, right so?
  - zvr 1y ago
    Yes, it uses zlib and some implementation of SSL. My earlier comment about "SSL" is that the actual library might be OpenSSL, BoringSSL, WolfSSL, GnuTLS, or any one of a number of others. So the number of uses of each one is smaller than the total number of "SSL" uses.
IshKebab 1y ago
I think there's quite a few above it. Qt, libpng, libusb etc.
- account42 1y ago
  libpng and libjpeg I can see. But Qt and libusb above ffmpeg? No way.
GZGavinZhao 1y ago
*sad curl noises

Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?

by larodi 1y ago

Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?

pledg 1y ago

libcurl?

deleted 1y ago

[deleted]

encom 1y ago

libc :D

npteljes 1y ago

It's up there in the hall of fame, that's for sure!

zaik 1y ago

You can check, at least for Arch Linux: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages

_kb 1y ago

You can pull the nix logs from here: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/main/metrics/fastly/README.md https://github.com/NixOS/infra/blob/main/metrics/fastly/READ... Could be an interesting data source to explore that opinion.

PokestarFan 1y ago

FFMpeg is probably not as up high since video processing only needs to be done on the servers that receive media. I doubt most phones are running FFMpeg on video.

larodi 1y ago
Well I would imagine portions of it are on every mobile device, and also Netflix and alike surely use it to encode video.
neRok 1y ago
Chrome and Firefox use FFmpeg libraries to decode media, so it's in more places than you might think! (But also, ChatGPT said it's not used in Android browser apps because they would use Android's "native" media stack).

zvr 1y ago

Curl should be up there, and "SSL" might be lower because of different implementations would split the numbers.

larodi 1y ago
Curl perhaps yes, but it employs zlib and libssl to operate, right so?
- zvr 1y ago
  Yes, it uses zlib and some implementation of SSL. My earlier comment about "SSL" is that the actual library might be OpenSSL, BoringSSL, WolfSSL, GnuTLS, or any one of a number of others. So the number of uses of each one is smaller than the total number of "SSL" uses.

IshKebab 1y ago

I think there's quite a few above it. Qt, libpng, libusb etc.

account42 1y ago
libpng and libjpeg I can see. But Qt and libusb above ffmpeg? No way.

GZGavinZhao 1y ago

*sad curl noises