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All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by dredmorbius »

rokweom wrote: post #169
caseysoftware wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, NPR covered it ~15 years ago: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=118518... I worked on an earlier version of this project where we actually had to play the albums but we also took high res (300 dpi tifs) of the individual records with the hope that we'd never have to physically touch them again. So I'll claim contributing to this effort. ;)

Any particular reason they couldn't use one of these laser vinyl turntables?

"It looks like somebody just got hungry and took a bite out of it," says Haber. He has positioned the record on a turntable and fitted the broken piece back into place, like it's a jigsaw puzzle. "If we spun this thing fast, the piece would come flying off, you know, and maybe hit somebody," he says.

Paragraph 2 of the link.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by dredmorbius »

stavros wrote: post #5
brian-armstrong wrote: post #2

The 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.

And those ten people are actually a pseudonym collective of Fabrice Bellard!

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by Kye »

dredmorbius wrote: post #180
Kye wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like an argument against something I didn't say in the comment you replied to. Maybe I misunderstood you.

There's at least a plausible interpretation of your earlier comment that the attempt was futile or without merits. The OP makes clear that this was the only viable way of extracting information. 1 >>> 0. Also, as a sufficiently early recording (anything before the mid-1940s), the medium would have been shellac or wax rather than vinyl. Shellac especially is immensely fragile and prone to shatter when handling.

Your interpretation was incorrect.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by dredmorbius »

Kye wrote: post #183
dredmorbius wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's at least a plausible interpretation of your earlier comment that the attempt was futile or without merits. The OP makes clear that this was the only viable way of extracting information. 1 >>> 0. Also, as a sufficiently early recording (anything before the mid-1940s), the medium would have been shellac or wax rather than vinyl. Shellac especially is immensely fragile and prone to shatter when handling.

Your interpretation was incorrect.

Your expression was unclear.

I'm not telling you what you meant.

I'm telling you what I heard, and, in reponse to your implied question, why I'd responded as I had.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by clxxx »

barbs wrote: post #119

I've only used ffmpeg for some minor video edits, it seems super powerful and is obviously quite ubiquitous. I'm curious to know what people have used it for? I'm sure there are some interesting use-cases out there.

Much smaller use case but I’ve used it to automate most of my video editing work (I work on a youtube channel). It probably cut down my work 70%-80%.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by klabb3 »

pabs3 wrote: post #79

I note that ffmpeg is on Vizio TVs and Vizio are being sued for not complying with open source licenses, including the ffmpeg one. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Amazing that this effort has legal funding. The stench of hypocracy when media companies, which publicly cry "societal collapse" at personal use IP violations, at the same time disregard basic licenses of others, exploiting volunteer labor for commercial purposes...

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by caseysoftware »

dredmorbius wrote: post #181
rokweom wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any particular reason they couldn't use one of these laser vinyl turntables?

"It looks like somebody just got hungry and took a bite out of it," says Haber. He has positioned the record on a turntable and fitted the broken piece back into place, like it's a jigsaw puzzle. "If we spun this thing fast, the piece would come flying off, you know, and maybe hit somebody," he says. Paragraph 2 of the link.

In that particular case, definitely. More generally, it's risk.

Every time an archivist touches the media - no matter gloves, a clean environment, the care applied, etc - there's a risk of altering or even damaging it. In our case, the eventual goal was to keep the ever-deteriorating originals in nitrogen-filled vaults.

Therefore, if you can avoid having to touch it often (or ever), then you've managed to protect it better, probably longer, and more cheaply.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by dredmorbius »

caseysoftware wrote: post #188
dredmorbius wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It looks like somebody just got hungry and took a bite out of it," says Haber. He has positioned the record on a turntable and fitted the broken piece back into place, like it's a jigsaw puzzle. "If we spun this thing fast, the piece would come flying off, you know, and maybe hit somebody," he says. Paragraph 2 of the link.

In that particular case, definitely. More generally, it's risk. Every time an archivist touches the media - no matter gloves, a clean environment, the care applied, etc - there's a risk of altering or even damaging it. In our case, the eventual goal was to keep the ever-deteriorating originals in nitrogen-filled vaults. Therefore, if you can avoid having to touch it often (or ever), then you've managed to protect it…

Right.

Static, high-resolution photography (or other imaging) is about the least-invasive, lowest-risk options available.

Re: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

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Post by Maursault »

doe88 wrote: post #128
ksec wrote: post #124

I think it is worth posting Tom Vaughan [1]( Father of x265 )'s reply here. >FFMPEG is a media processing framework. It's great for simple media processing jobs (builds a graph, runs the graph). A build of "FFMPEG" includes that media processing framework plus dozens of open source libraries (filters) that do the actual work (x265, x265, libav, etc). >So "FFMPEG" gets a lot of well deserved credit (it's the framework…

And VLC is a tiny fraction of FFMPEG?

No, but both vlc and ffmpeg use libavcodec.[1] HandBrake uses ffmpeg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec

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