[HN Gopher] The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)
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       The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)
        
       Author : dosshell
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-04-15 21:21 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | password4321 wrote:
       | What about gstreamer?
       | 
       | I asked ChatGPT for an example to work in memory instead of
       | ffmpeg with files and it just went on and on... plus the
       | dependencies were pretty clearly most at home on Linux.
       | 
       | Might have been my inexperience?
        
         | ilyt wrote:
         | if it is just encoding/decoding ffmpeg can go entirely from
         | stdin to stdout IIRC, provided formats support it. So for
         | example it won't work for mp4 output as it needs to seek to
         | write some headers (again, IIRC) when saving it.
        
           | password4321 wrote:
           | Thanks for the tip!
           | 
           | I was hoping to combine lengthy video files chopped at 4GB by
           | the video camera into one YouTube upload without duplicating
           | on disk first.
        
             | ilyt wrote:
             | Yeah forcing YT to accept it directly from ffmpeg would be
             | the hardest part.
             | 
             | I hit that behaviour when I tried to upload encode directly
             | to S3 bucket, turned out only some formats worked
        
       | Denvercoder9 wrote:
       | A lot has happened since 2012. Libav is dead now, and everybody
       | has switched back to ffmpeg.
        
         | cornstalks wrote:
         | Being at the VDD conference when the libav and FFmpeg
         | developers got together in a single room and agreed to come
         | together and elected leadership and stuff was a really cool
         | experience. I knew libav wasn't really alive but when Diego
         | said "It's dead" it really hit me that the libav/FFmpeg drama
         | really might be coming to a close finally.
         | 
         | JB, when's the next VDD?
        
           | derdlick wrote:
           | It's sad that there aren't any alternatives to ffmpeg. It
           | could have been a mutually beneficial relationship if they
           | dropped the antagonism and uncooperative behaviors. Instead
           | they just essentially killed libav.
        
           | jbk wrote:
           | > Being at the VDD conference when the libav and FFmpeg
           | developers got together in a single room and agreed to come
           | together
           | 
           | It has been a difficult process, but we got things done, in
           | the end...
           | 
           | I'm glad we're past this.
           | 
           | > JB, when's the next VDD?
           | 
           | This fall, I hope in Sicily. :)
        
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