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FFmpeg 8.0

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Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by oblio »

First of all: congratulations!!!

Secondly, just curious: any insiders here?

What changed? I see the infrastructure has been upgraded, this seems like a big release, etc. I guess there was a recent influx of contributors? A corporate donation? Something else?

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by pmarreck »

Impressed anytime I have to use it (even if I have to study its man page again or use an LLM to construct the right incantation or use a GUI that just builds the incantation based on visual options). Becoming an indispensable transcoding multitool.

I think building some processing off of Vulkan 1.3 was the right move. (Aside, I also just noticed yesterday that Asahi Linux on Mac supports that standard as well.)

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by 0xbeefcab »

Linking a previous discussion to FFMPEG's inclusion of whisper in this release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886647

This seemed to be interesting to users of this site. tl;dr they added support for whisper, an OpenAI model for speech-to-text, which should allow autogeneration of captions via ffmpeg

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by exprez135 »

oblio wrote: post #2

First of all: congratulations!!! Secondly, just curious: any insiders here? What changed? I see the infrastructure has been upgraded, this seems like a big release, etc. I guess there was a recent influx of contributors? A corporate donation? Something else?

Not an insider, but I noticed that there is now a filter for using Whisper (C++) for audio transcription [1]. It looks like you provide the path to a model file [2].

[1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

[2]: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/13ce36fef98a...

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by Culonavirus »

pmarreck wrote: post #3

Impressed anytime I have to use it (even if I have to study its man page again or use an LLM to construct the right incantation or use a GUI that just builds the incantation based on visual options). Becoming an indispensable transcoding multitool. I think building some processing off of Vulkan 1.3 was the right move. (Aside, I also just noticed yesterday that Asahi Linux on Mac supports that standard as well.)

> incantation

FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by zhengyi13 »

JadoJodo wrote: post #7

I don't know a huge amount about video encoding, but I presume this is one of those libraries outlined in xkcd 2347[0]? [0] - https://xkcd.com/2347/

Yes, this is a pretty fundamental building block; just not so rickety.

Re: FFmpeg 8.0

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Post by Keyframe »

Culonavirus wrote: post #6
pmarreck wrote: post #3

Impressed anytime I have to use it (even if I have to study its man page again or use an LLM to construct the right incantation or use a GUI that just builds the incantation based on visual options). Becoming an indispensable transcoding multitool. I think building some processing off of Vulkan 1.3 was the right move. (Aside, I also just noticed yesterday that Asahi Linux on Mac supports that standard as well.)

> incantation FFmpeg arguments, the original prompt engineering

with gemini-cli and claude-cli you can now prompt while it prompts ffmpeg, and it does work.
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