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> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fi
by cassianoleal 4mo ago
> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet.
I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears.
Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.
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- newsclues 4mo agoWithout YouTube and porn, is there really an internet?
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoMore like without video, is there still internet..... Absolutely yes. It's a tad hyperbolic I agree
- lolive 4mo agoMy kids strongly disagree.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoFortnight isn't a video
- lintfordpickle 4mo agoalthough, somewhat ironic to your argument, I bet the intro that fornite plays when starting the game uses ffmpeg
- bcrosby95 4mo agoIt would still be a game without the intro video.
- DiskoHexyl 4mo agoFor us- sure. For most of the internet users- very likely no. Social media and video streaming IS the internet for the majority
- bigfishrunning 4mo agoit sounds like paradise, we should start working toward this immediately
- afavour 4mo agoIt’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoFfmpeg has nothing to do with the internet other than being distributed on it
- afavour 4mo agoIt powers the content that makes up a lot of the time a lot of internet users spend their time watching. I don’t think the pedantry serves a purpose.
- naasking 4mo agoMost bytes traversing the internet is video these days. Arguably, ffmpeg has processed most of that video.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoThen unicode powers the internet by that same logic.
- ekelsen 4mo agoIt's how LLMs write. The tweet / article is written by an LLM and that's how it does.