Glad to see ffmpeg is still going strong, I used it years ago to do some project 1999 EverQuest streaming on twitch running on a Manjaro dist install running EQ in wine.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Also Mars rovers…

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Reminder FFMPEG can execute simple edits all on it's own & has built-in automation

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if YouTube and Netflix don't use FFmpeg. I am pretty sure they use custom built hardware encoders. Pretty sure Netflix has a lot of blog posts about building their own encoding methods

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[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone stream directly from ffmpeg? I have a 24/7 music stream with a static background image and playlist, running headless off a raspberry pi, and I'd love to see what other people have come up with to expand the idea

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I did a few times just to test it out on peertube, i wrote a script to broadcast all videos in a given folder in random order. I would like to eventually have something going 24/7 but i havent gotten to setting that up yet

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why don't they change the licence of FFMpeg to GPL so that everything uses it is open source? It'd be a win-win.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then all these companies just wouldn't use it and would use something worse instead. Everything will be inferior and ffmpeg becomes less prominent and loses out on contributors and donations. It's a lose-lose.

Reality is complicated, GPL is awesome for a lot of things but in some cases it can hinder adoption.

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[–] seralth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Changing licence is harder then you would think.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yup. Just imagine them changing it the other way on a whim.

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Funny story. You can stream to all platforms with RTMP but only piece of software that was able to play rtmp in browser (flashplayer) is dead.

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