FFmpeg

“The ffmpeg project is used to dealing with these matters, and will keep your codec working for eternity.”

“ffmpeg is super powerful, you can technically resize and alter videos into a consistent format and then encode a new video too.”

“FFmpeg provides mature, well-tested support for decoding, transcoding, resampling, mixing, and muxing across a wide range of formats”

“every time I tried to understand ffmpeg I got a little of it for a little bit and then lost it by 2 days or so”

“I've been waiting for this feature! Whenever I've encountered an animated WebP, I've had to drop it into ezgif.com”

“it was annoying ffmpeg did not, because that meant a lot of non-browser desktop apps couldn't view them either.”

“I've been using a custom solution that runs everything through ffmpeg normalization as part of the media upload phase.”

“The main failing of the ffmpeg team is that they should have spent more time on architectural hardening and mitigations.”

“ffmpeg is also rather popular and delivers a lot of functionality. Its unlikely that you don't have it installed.”

“FFmpeg doesn't care whats on the other end (e.g. redirect to file, read via Python, etc) due to these lovely abstractions.”

“Being able to directly inspect (and in some cases modify for extra debug output) FFmpeg at any given time was invaluable”

“More automated regression testing means fewer 'works on my machine' surprises when upgrading between versions in CI pipelines.”

“Quite funny, and everything from yadif to mkvtoolnix to "But then it will explode if you have an apostrophe in your file name."”

“getting the stock ffmpeg to compile/build might be "easy", but once you start adding on additional codecs and other features that get you into dependency nightmares "easy" is not the word I would use”

“Can't make frame perfect cuts without re-encoding, unless your cut points just so happen to be keyframe aligned.”

“I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically.”

“spawn ffmpeg as a child process from node, pipe stdin/stdout directly and skip disk entirely for intermediate steps”

“Oh this is so nice, I had huge annoyances with figuring out how to automatically copy over the metadata in the past.”

“ffmpeg has been the answer to my various occasional multimedia conversion/processing tasks over decades”

“a simple FFMPEG command to watermark an image (or video) take less time than integrating with an API”

“Over the years I've had to upgrade the ffmpeg dependency, which resulted in breaking changes a couple times and maintenance.”

“Figuring how to do what you want with ImageMagick or FFmpeg always involved with a lot of reading time before LLM.”

“Basically all videoconferencing (except teams) is built on the back of French open source software.”

“calling ffmpeg as external binary to handle some multimedia processing would be one of those cases where simple is better”

“your conclusion that the tool is broken is like saying "this car is broken" when you don't know how to operate it and drive.”

“change the container format (remux it) using ffmpeg, copying the video and audio streams directly across”

“ffmpeg's defaults (reencoding by default and only keeping one stream of each type unless otherwise specified) aren't great”

“I hate ffmpeg though, the UX is just insane, so I tend more towards tools that produce the arcane command structures for me.”

“ffmpeg has long solved the task of outputting HLS, DASH or whatever else standard and it Just Works No Matter Where”

“It's much simpler to actually understand what you're doing with that than some convoluted gstreamer pipeline.”

“FFmpeg and OBS are extremely powerful tools, but they require local installation, CLI knowledge, and manual configuration.”

“For watermarks you can use ffmpeg blur which will of course be super fast and looks good on certain kinds of content”

“Today with modern tools like VLC or MPV and ffmpeg nearly anything can be viewed, streamed, or locally saved”

“This software is literally holding the near entirety of video transcoding *worldwide* on its shoulders.”

“their Twitter seems reasonable and combative towards companies who want to exploit their results without contribution”

“If widely deployed infrastructure software is so full of vulnerabilities that its maintainers can't fix them as fast as they're found”

“that has kept it one of the https://xkcd.com/2347/ pieces of everyone's infrastructure for over 2 decades.”

“AFAIK, since the codec is enabled by default, anyone who processes a maliciously crafted .mp4 file with ffmpeg is vulnerable.”

“I found FFmpeg to be extremely easy to compile as both a command line tool and library, plus it can do so much out of the box”

“I considered FFmpeg a great project, but I usually avoid to use it directly because of his quite complex syntax”