[HN Gopher] The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012) ___________________________________________________________________ The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012) Author : dosshell Score : 10 points Date : 2023-04-15 21:21 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.pkh.me) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.pkh.me) | password4321 wrote: | What about gstreamer? | | I asked ChatGPT for an example to work in memory instead of | ffmpeg with files and it just went on and on... plus the | dependencies were pretty clearly most at home on Linux. | | Might have been my inexperience? | ilyt wrote: | if it is just encoding/decoding ffmpeg can go entirely from | stdin to stdout IIRC, provided formats support it. So for | example it won't work for mp4 output as it needs to seek to | write some headers (again, IIRC) when saving it. | password4321 wrote: | Thanks for the tip! | | I was hoping to combine lengthy video files chopped at 4GB by | the video camera into one YouTube upload without duplicating | on disk first. | ilyt wrote: | Yeah forcing YT to accept it directly from ffmpeg would be | the hardest part. | | I hit that behaviour when I tried to upload encode directly | to S3 bucket, turned out only some formats worked | Denvercoder9 wrote: | A lot has happened since 2012. Libav is dead now, and everybody | has switched back to ffmpeg. | cornstalks wrote: | Being at the VDD conference when the libav and FFmpeg | developers got together in a single room and agreed to come | together and elected leadership and stuff was a really cool | experience. I knew libav wasn't really alive but when Diego | said "It's dead" it really hit me that the libav/FFmpeg drama | really might be coming to a close finally. | | JB, when's the next VDD? | derdlick wrote: | It's sad that there aren't any alternatives to ffmpeg. It | could have been a mutually beneficial relationship if they | dropped the antagonism and uncooperative behaviors. Instead | they just essentially killed libav. | jbk wrote: | > Being at the VDD conference when the libav and FFmpeg | developers got together in a single room and agreed to come | together | | It has been a difficult process, but we got things done, in | the end... | | I'm glad we're past this. | | > JB, when's the next VDD? | | This fall, I hope in Sicily. :) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-15 23:00 UTC)