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FFmpeg retweeted
Linus Torvalds to the anti-AI crowd: stop using compilers if you want to prove they’re REAL programmers. LOL.
“you had better not use an editor to write that commit message either.
The kind of expectations *I* have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing.
But that understanding has very little to do with what tools they use.
And quite honestly, in my experience, the people I respect and call intelligent are not the ones that shy away from using new and interesting tools.”
FFmpeg retweeted
Making point releases in 2026 – the real process:
1️⃣ Backport everything "manually"
2️⃣ Test manually
3️⃣ Run 2 passes with multiple AI sub-agents scanning for missed backports
🧵
FFmpeg retweeted
I would add: while getting credits to use your service is nice, credits don't pay our rent, our food, our children's clothes and indirectly still just serve your market value. If you really want to help, sponsor our developers with real cash.
FFmpeg retweeted
todays AI-security high-light (note even without this I still have difficulty with the amount ATM)
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Thx @FFmpeg
I have a ~2gb .mkv file now it’s ~300mb file at the same resolution 🫨
FFmpeg retweeted
The size difference between what random online "ICO converters" give you (15-370 KB) and what you get with a single @FFmpeg command (2.3 KB) is crazy!
ffmpeg -i favicon-32.png favicon.ico
Imagine all the disk space and traffic we're wasting because of them!
FFmpeg retweeted
Watching the lex podcast, what stood out to me was not what was said, but what was missing.
FFmpeg needs people who put FFmpeg first. That should not be controversial. If someones primary focus is their own company, then their primary focus is not FFmpeg. Those are not the same
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Here's my conversation all about @FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran is FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous @FFmpeg account on X.
VLC (@videolan), by the way, is also a legendary piece of open-source software: it's a video player that can open basically anything & has been downloaded over 6 billion times.
I think both FFmpeg and VLC are two of the most important and impactful software systems ever created, both open source, and both created & maintained by volunteers: brilliant engineers from all walks of life.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to FFmpeg and VLC, and in general to all engineers giving their heart & soul to building systems used by millions (or billions) of people, and often doing so not for money, status, or fame, but purely for the love of building great software and doing good for the world.
Thank you to the builders! 🙏❤️
Shoutouts in this chat to @ID_AA_Carmack @karpathy @elonmusk @TimSweeneyEpic and everyone who is a contributor & fan of open source!
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
2:17 - Introduction
5:35 - Weirdest things VLC opens
9:59 - How video playback works
19:20 - Video codecs and containers
30:07 - FFmpeg explained
51:07 - Linus Torvalds
55:46 - Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free
1:10:04 - FFmpeg & Google drama
1:29:18 - FFmpeg developers
1:35:55 - VLC and FFmpeg
1:40:29 - History of FFmpeg
1:43:46 - Reverse engineering codecs
1:57:01 - FFmpeg testing
2:01:08 - Assembly code (handwritten)
2:25:26 - Rust programming language
2:34:42 - FFmpeg and Libav fork
2:43:04 - Open source burnout
2:50:51 - x264 and internet video
3:04:07 - Video compression basics
3:11:04 - CIA and fake VLC
3:21:39 - Ultra low latency streaming
3:39:07 - AV2 codec and video patents
3:48:59 - VLC backdoors
3:59:14 - Video archiving
4:05:51 - Future of FFmpeg and VLC
FFmpeg retweeted
Great episode of @lexfridman and @FFmpeg !
This is as deep lore as it gets when it comes to video formats.
youtube.com/watch?v=nepKKz-M…
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I had a lot of fun talking to @lexfridman about the amazing world of @ffmpeg development
youtu.be/nepKKz-MzFM?si=R-lh…
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FFmpeg 8.1.1 (85 commits) and 8.0.2 (295 commits) releases made. There are lots of security fixes in these.
