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backgrounds and very introverted. Sure. But that's okay, right?
- FFmpeg is probably one of the biggest CPU users in the world. Everything we've just said in the past couple of minutes, every sentence is someone's
lifetime's work. There are books about every sentence. So the level of complexity in many cases is inordinate.
- FFmpeg is probably one of the biggest CPU users in the world.
- FFmpeg has one hundred thousand lines of assembly for all the codecs.
FFmpeg is an open source software system that is the invisible backbone behind YouTube, Netflix, Chrome, VLC, Discord, and basically every platform that
FFmpeg account on Twitter/X that I recommend everybody follow for the memes and for the unapologetic celebration of open source and great low-level software engineering.
- FFmpeg is basically the low-level libraries for codecs, so compressions
FFmpeg. And FFmpeg in it has all those type of tools, and sometimes depend on other libraries like x264, libvpx, and others, right?
FFmpeg is this collection of toolbox for multimedia processing that everyone uses.
FFmpeg and VLC are mostly GPL or LGPL.
So FFmpeg underlies basically most video on the internet including YouTube, Netflix, Chrome, Firefox, of course VLC and countless other video platforms.
- And FFmpeg is exactly the same.
But the FFmpeg on the command line— is, like, legendary because you can cut— Like, there's so many parameters.
command lines for FFmpeg because you have no idea what it is.
in command line on FFmpeg, right?
It's tools like FFmpeg that democratize this. You know, FFmpeg was a big player in that because it
which is calling FFmpeg in it.
modification you did on FFmpeg.
the famous FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers, and that's true, and you've got to imagine someone's done a hard day's work at their day job.
- The following is a conversation all about FFmpeg and VLC with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya.
is a key figure behind VLC and FFmpeg. Kieran is a longtime codec engineer, FFmpeg contributor, and the man behind the now infamous
So today we wanna talk about FFmpeg and VLC.
possible that inside some part of FFmpeg is running.
And so you can use FFmpeg as LGPL into, like, any type of application, even non-open source, but you need to give back the
So FFmpeg, VLC, x264, VideoLAN, everything we do is fully open source.
- This is a question we get a lot in FFmpeg is, "Why don't you do that?"
And this is especially for open source projects like FFmpeg and VLC, which are mostly centered out of Europe.
We'll talk about FFmpeg, we'll talk about VideoLAN, VLC and all the other incredible video technology that is used probably by billions of people.
is estimated that over 90% of video processing workflows online and offline involve FFmpeg.
And on FFmpeg and VLC, it's just like,
like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it and then I wanted to use whisper but it didn't had it installed.
There is a few tools, but not with the breadth of FFmpeg.
- And the vision behind, and the same for VLC and FFmpeg, is that we make everything that is very complex easy to use for the normal
Most of those people around FFmpeg and VLC, we do VideoLAN DevDays, VDD every, every year.
It is also about the deeper spirit of engineering and generosity that makes projects like FFmpeg possible.
- Oh, yeah, and there is of course all the weird codecs support, game codecs supported by FFmpeg.
And we'll talk about, you know, the mission of FFmpeg being a kinda the archival aspect of it.
Kieran, amongst many other things, you're lead developer behind the legendary FFmpeg handle on Twitter.
the file may say .MP4, but it may be something completely different, and that's one of the challenges both FFmpeg and VLC have is the real world is a
Like, for example, in VLC and in FFmpeg, we discard the file format, right?
Let's talk about FFmpeg. What, what is FFmpeg exactly?
It's— it wouldn't be a surprise, you know, these big companies just have three thousand-line FFmpeg commands.
- So yeah, there's a bunch of tools, like literally command line tool, FFmpeg, of course, FFprobe.
Because— so most of the people, they're going to take FFmpeg, file in, file out, and specify the format, right?
thousands of characters, and we've seen also, like, people, like, doing programming generation of command lines to make FFmpeg.
Well, it's FFmpeg on the client side.
Well, you're using FFmpeg also.
Well, it's FFmpeg, right?
- I mean, there's like so many, just to give people an idea, like I use FFmpeg a lot on, on everything.
But for video, you have FFmpeg in command line.
Or, or people put any type of thing inside FFmpeg with
So when we say what is FFmpeg, it's an open source project.
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