are you saying ffmpeg is the next log4j ?
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
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Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#72Don'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…
Yes. On Windows actually :)
Debian is not the best maintained distro.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#73About 14 years ago, at my first job, I worked with a colleague[1] who introduced me to the wonderful world of open source: the culture, the philosophy, how to submit patches to open source projects, etc. He also introduced me to Debian GNU/Linux which I use actively to this day. One day, he began working on certain audio/video encoding problems that needed to be solved for our project. He chose FFmpeg as the primary…
Yeah, it’s been said that ffmpeg and vlc could play a vinyl record if you fed it to them. It’s not actually true, but it is story true.
> It’s not actually true, but it is story true.
Glad to see this phrase from The Things They Carried outlive the book.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment brings me a lot of sadness and pain. I know and respect Fabrice from in person interactions. He is exactly who he claims to be. Maybe an interesting question, instead of this current line of discussion, is to find out what led to his successes? Could it be replicated?
> I know and respect Fabrice from in person interactions. He is exactly who he claims to be. Maybe an interesting question, instead of this current line of discussion, is to find out what led to his successes? While I think the GP was a joke, you ask an interesting question that I tried to answer 12 days ago on this very site. [1] tl;dr: I'm not fast, but I'm getting faster because I understand my entire codebase. I…
>> I understand my entire codebase.
FFmpeg doesn't have any dependencies does it? You are probably onto something.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#75This guy (Fabrice Bellard) is my personal hero.
I have designed and build with my team VOD service for leading local entertainment TV provider in 2009.
We were amazed at provided flexibility by ffmpeg. In no time we were able to hook up our back-end logic and go.
We opted to "risk" with Nginx and Jquery and delivered successfully on the front-end.
The funny thing is that at the time a lot of commercially available "solutions" were a total joke and costed an arm and a leg.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#76About 14 years ago, at my first job, I worked with a colleague[1] who introduced me to the wonderful world of open source: the culture, the philosophy, how to submit patches to open source projects, etc. He also introduced me to Debian GNU/Linux which I use actively to this day. One day, he began working on certain audio/video encoding problems that needed to be solved for our project. He chose FFmpeg as the primary…
"Unix" for video. Love it :)
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some speculate that Fabrice Bellard is actually as many as ten different people.
There's maybe some insight to be gained by analyzing the commits to see if the code seems to be made by different people. I remember that there was the same theory about a very prolific person on the npm/js ecosystem.
Mate, it was a joke. Nobody seriously think he is several people.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#78Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#79I note that ffmpeg is on Vizio TVs and Vizio are being sued for not complying with open source licenses, including the ffmpeg one.
Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
#80are you saying ffmpeg is the next log4j ?
You may be joking, but if one found a RCE in FFMPEG that would apply to any AV transcoding it does, you would probably be able to target a boatload of websites. Of course not on the scale as log4j, but it would still be pretty bad.