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FFmpeg
@FFmpeg
The universal multimedia toolkit.
A diverse, community-driven project; posts are by individuals.
Joined March 2013
ffmpeg is old and outdated. is there a good alternative?- If you say so...The best quality livestreams will now be on Rumble. We didn't license technology, we made it ourselves, so good luck to the competition in catching up.Readers added contextThey are using FFmpeg. x.com/FFmpeg/status/…
- Sorry you don't like our codec implementations in VLC. Looking forward to seeing yours.
- It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.
- The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
00:55Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years- Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back)
- FFmpeg is pleased to announce we are joining the @DOGE team! We will be rewriting America's Social Security system in assembly language, for the highest performance possible.
- We aim to play any videooh cool ffmpeg can deal with Sega Saturn cpak video files no problem, I can watch the Gundam cutscenes right off the disk
- BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly 13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 121.2 (100.18x) that may be the biggest speedup I've seen so far
- Famously this file is a valid JPEG and MP3 at the same time
- Microsoft are at it again ;)gee Windows, thank you for protecting me from the dread malware program <checks notes> ... @FFmpeg
