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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

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Re: Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

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Post by vigneshv_psg »

jacooper wrote: post #3
bestouff wrote: post #2

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Just read the Twitter account of ffmpeg just to see what they thinks about this, spoiler alert: he doesn't like it to say the least.

are you talking about a specific thread? if so, could you please link to it.

i see some generic posts about how ffmpeg is written in C and Assembly and will not be re-written in C++, but nothing about Rust.

Re: Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

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Post by nwah1 »

bestouff wrote: post #2

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For an enormous project like this, it is probably more reasonable to just use the latest version of C, and turn on lots of linters and sanitizers. You could also use one of the various strict subsets of C that is oriented for safety.

Might as well tell people to rewrite WebKit or Linux in Rust. There are projects that aim at building browsers or kernels in Rust, but the man-millennia of effort put into the existing projects means catching up is no small feat.

Even the coreutils rewrite has taken like a decade and isn't done. And that is a small and well-defined goal by comparison.

Re: Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

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Post by devwastaken »

bestouff wrote: post #2

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You're not wrong. Media codecs are a good attack vector. However, it's not so simple. You need hand crafted SIMD to reach desired performance. That is a whole area of specialized theory and research. I think it should be done, but who is going to fund it?
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