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FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by kcorbitt »

djm_ wrote: post #5

Thanks to all the FFmpeg contributors! Fantastic piece of software. On a project I was recently on recently we started hitting the per-region concurrent transcode limits on Amazon's Elastic Transcoder. [1] Instead of sharding over pipelines or accounts we set up a pipeline with FFMPEG + Lambda functions and it performed fantastically (within the free tier even). It was incredibly simple to write the functions and has…

Just want to add my voice to everyone hoping for a writeup. I'm especially interested in the cost comparison.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by kuschku »

gmfawcett wrote: post #17
kuschku wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software-wise, ffmpeg is the more feature complete solution, obviously. But if you want a morally and ethically okay solution, with a cleaner codebase (but also NIH syndrome), libav might be the better solution. The same people who use free software for moral and ethical reasons would also choose libav.

"Morally and ethically okay" -- what do you mean by that? and why doesn't ffmpeg meet the same standard, in your opinion? I've read summaries of the libav fork, but I don't recall anyone raising issues of morality.

The way the ffmpeg maintainer behaved – as malevolent dictator – in contrast to the more open development approach of libav, is a pretty big issue, don’t you think?

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by kuschku »

danso wrote: post #18
kuschku wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software-wise, ffmpeg is the more feature complete solution, obviously. But if you want a morally and ethically okay solution, with a cleaner codebase (but also NIH syndrome), libav might be the better solution. The same people who use free software for moral and ethical reasons would also choose libav.

Sorry, what's wrong with using free software for moral and ethical reasons? I often do so because I don't feel like paying nor stealing commercial software. However, being so dependent on OSS has made me appreciate it and want to support it in what ways I can -- call it a moral imperative. Besides contributing bug reports and patches, I sometimes like using new libraries (or edge versions of existing software) if the…

Nothing is wrong with that, but in a situation where one malevolent dictator acted against the will of every single other member of the development team, and forced them to fork, it’s hard to argue that his version is the moral one.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by esaym »

I love FFmpeg. I first used it to help with uploading 700 audio files to youtube years ago. Of course youtube is video only, so I used ffmpeg to reencode the audio with an image slideshow as video and then uploaded the "videos" using some web scrapping with perl.

More recently I have been downloading programming framework tutorials (android development, django, angular,ect) from youtube to my plex media server. I then go back with ffmpeg to reencode the vids to playback 50% faster. So now I can blast through tutorials on my TV while I eat lunch (I work from home mostly)

Edit: The release mentioned hardware acceleration improvements. I never knew ffmpeg even supported any HW accel: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by air »

kuschku wrote: post #32
gmfawcett wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Morally and ethically okay" -- what do you mean by that? and why doesn't ffmpeg meet the same standard, in your opinion? I've read summaries of the libav fork, but I don't recall anyone raising issues of morality.

The way the ffmpeg maintainer behaved – as malevolent dictator – in contrast to the more open development approach of libav, is a pretty big issue, don’t you think?

IMHO the hostile takeover of the ffmpeg project by the libav guys (Fabrice Bellard had to wield trademark to force them to rename the fork) and intense FUD campaign were much bigger issues.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by GhotiFish »

esaym wrote: post #35

I love FFmpeg. I first used it to help with uploading 700 audio files to youtube years ago. Of course youtube is video only, so I used ffmpeg to reencode the audio with an image slideshow as video and then uploaded the "videos" using some web scrapping with perl. More recently I have been downloading programming framework tutorials (android development, django, angular,ect) from youtube to my plex media server. I the…

mplayer and mpv and vlc and most native players can speed videos up on the fly, tempo-shifting or pitch shifting the audio based on preferences.

Usually the [ and ] keys.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by diimdeep »

gerjomarty wrote: post #9
danso wrote: post #4

I know this has been a constant question (in the lines of "Should I go Python 2.x or 3.x?")...but I feel the need to ask it again on the event of a major point release for ffmpeg...but how are things, pragmatically-speaking, in terms of libav vs ffmpeg? I had thought that libav was the new way a few years ago and have more or less been using it on OS X...but now I see that Debian recently switched back to ffmpeg [1].…

mpv has a nice (and opinionated, which is good) guide for the things that matter to them: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav

Thats nice one: - Libav - Pretends FFmpeg doesn't exist, though sometimes merges individual patches. - FFmpeg - Pretends Libav doesn't exist, but merges absolutely everything it does. Sometimes with consequences; for example there are now 2 prores decoders, and 3 prores encoders.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by esaym »

GhotiFish wrote: post #37
esaym wrote: post #35

I love FFmpeg. I first used it to help with uploading 700 audio files to youtube years ago. Of course youtube is video only, so I used ffmpeg to reencode the audio with an image slideshow as video and then uploaded the "videos" using some web scrapping with perl. More recently I have been downloading programming framework tutorials (android development, django, angular,ect) from youtube to my plex media server. I the…

mplayer and mpv and vlc and most native players can speed videos up on the fly, tempo-shifting or pitch shifting the audio based on preferences. Usually the [ and ] keys.

Yes, those are players. But I don't want to sit in front of my computer or cell phone while on lunch break, I want to sit on the couch in front of a TV.

Natively, neither plex or roku allows videos to be speed up, so they have to be reencoded at a different speed.

Re: FFmpeg 3.0 released

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Post by brianshaler »

Rezo wrote: post #28
djm_ wrote: post #5

Thanks to all the FFmpeg contributors! Fantastic piece of software. On a project I was recently on recently we started hitting the per-region concurrent transcode limits on Amazon's Elastic Transcoder. [1] Instead of sharding over pipelines or accounts we set up a pipeline with FFMPEG + Lambda functions and it performed fantastically (within the free tier even). It was incredibly simple to write the functions and has…

Did you try simply asking AWS to raise the limit? It even suggests so on your linked page. In my experience, every limit is immediately relaxed when requested; number of VPCs (I see people do horrible things to work around this all the time! Just ask!), EC2s / region, SES limits (need to send 10 million emails / day? No problem!), API Gateways / account, total ASGs... I believe all of these are there to keep you from…

I've been surprised/impressed by their quick and painless limit increases. It makes sense to have low default limits so people don't accidentally spin up a thousand instances or send a million emails. It seems the limits are mostly there to protect you from a bug or test in early development costing you a bunch of money.
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