Weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video

[sha-3]

https://nitter.net/FFmpeg/status/1710440696941809868

[hnfong]

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/2347/

To my knowledge Fabrice Bellard created two of those (ffmpeg and qemu)

[em-bee]

neither are maintained by a single random person in the middle of nowhere. more like thanklessly maintained by a group of enthusiasts.

but, more to your point (i assume), i suppose they could use more support, especially from large users like google.

[leosanchez]

Even YouTube?

[anonacct37]

As someone who once had access to internal fleetwide profiling information, yes.

There is older evidence based on quirks in encoding. https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

[extraduder_ire]

Why would they use anything else? I don't think there's any other software close in terms of cost/features. (unless you count libAV, which is a fork of ffmpeg)

[tetris11]

The tweet says yes.