The creator of ffmpeg, Fabrice Bellard, has an impressively long list of projects. Very talented developer! https://bellard.org/
I love the nonchalance with which this is presented.
"Oh here's a list of my projects."
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
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Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#52I work for a Fortune 500 company. We absolutely use ffmpeg. Why would we not use the best software out there?
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#53Don't forget about gstreamer. Both FFMPEG and gstreamer are used in many production environments. That said, you also find professional codecs and transport libraries. I've worked on projects using Main Concept codecs and custom plumbing, for instance.
Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer? Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on my pesonal laptop is to satisfy certain GNOME dependencies (due to GNOME, understandably, dogfooding its own stuff). Everything else (including apps I use daily e.g. mpv, Firefox, etc) depends on ffmpeg. $ sudo pacman -Rs gstreamer checking dependencies... err…
I work at a company acquired by Motorola Solutions and we use gstreamer, but I don't know about MSI overall, just our division. We also use ffmpeg for some things, lol.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#54i owe so much to fabrice, the ffmpeg community, and the upstream encoders and decoders and their respective communities. this post was a good reminder to donate.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some speculate that Fabrice Bellard is actually as many as ten different people.
Or that he is a time traveller from an advanced (human or not) species sowing the seeds for humanity’s leap forward into into extra-terrestrial society.
Or, perhaps more likely, sowing the seeds for humanities demise by enabling the existence of YouTube/TikTok et al.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#57FLOSS made internet video possible.
>FLOSS made the internet possible. FTFA! In all seriousness though; there isn't an aspect of computing that hasn't been improved by F(L)OSS. (What's the L stand for?)
> there isn't an aspect of computing that hasn't been improved by F(L)OSS
Mmmm.. I'd have to disagree, based on my professional experience. FLOSS hasn't really improved business software. User interfaces, Groupware, Enterprise software, Tax software, Government software, Industrial software, Telecom, POS, EHR, etc. It's hardly ever written as FLOSS because it takes a lot of time and effort, and devs don't find it rewarding to write that stuff in their free time (most OSS is written because the developer just needed that code). When there is a FLOSS solution, it's not an improvement over the proprietary alternative.
Even in "IT", there is a huge dearth of quality FLOSS used to build... anything. There's lots of one-off projects that are good for one thing or another, but very few large robust solutions, and components never seem to mix together unless they have "custom integrations" to tie them to other systems. Microsoft will forever be the king of Enterprise software integration and business productivity tools, and each industry has its own "business software" titan. SaaS and PaaS are also more closed-source than open.
When there is some FLOSS that does something difficult like video rendering, or running distributed applications, the entire industry uses it. But for the bulk of the business world's needs, often the only solutions are proprietary.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#58The "triumph of high quality open source software" is wrong because ffmpeg is old C/ASM hacky code (not even C++, optimized by speed for hardware). I got my first experience of optimizing ffmpeg video decoder for AMD Alchemy processor in 2006.
Let's take a look at the history of ffmpeg created by hackers for hackers.
Do you remember how many times you saw strange squares on the screen when rewinding a YouTube video or DVD MPEG2, or random freezes when streaming Twitch when you think it is a video stream error. But no. Most of these are programming errors of the ffmpeg hacker backend, which has many pointer errors. It is difficult to recovery state from a failure of any level due handling C and pointer errors. The global use of ffmpeg is caused by the lack of FOSS alternatives, but not by the quality of the software. It was cheaper for corporations to fix bugs and hire a developer like me than to develop their own video codec or system from scratch. All alternatives were closed source and required of tones of money per tech licenses like MPEG2. Of course, over the years, the ffmpeg ecosystem has improved and many bugs have been fixed, but this has not changed the general situation with existing and potential bugs and vulnerabilities by design. Therefore, in different video applications, you can observe random bugs and signal drops every day. Nice try John ID_AA_Carmack
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#59Still waiting on Boz to respond: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258610970349441024
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Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#60The creator of ffmpeg, Fabrice Bellard, has an impressively long list of projects. Very talented developer! https://bellard.org/
Some speculate that Fabrice Bellard is actually as many as ten different people.
Is there any particular reason that any mention of Fabrice Bellard turns into a praise-fest? I mean, I get it, the guy makes neat stuff and lots of it. But the level of hype is unusual, and I wonder whether there's an origin for this meme that isn't rooted in reading his actual source code.