FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale

Posted by sudhakaran88 15 hours ago

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale(engineering.fb.com)

178 points | 80 commentspage 2

EdNutting 6 hours ago|

Same HN post from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224355

[Edit: Why is anyone downvoting me linking to the previous post of this? What possible objection could you have to this particular comment?]

WalterGR 4 hours ago||

My understanding is that reposts are fine until there’s measurable discussion, as long as said reposts aren’t by the same user.

EdNutting 4 hours ago||

And what in my comment said anything about there being a problem??

EdNutting 4 hours ago|||

This is the modern internet at work. People assume that a completely neutral statement that (to reword my original comment into a longer form) "here's a link to the same post from previously, because you might want to see it was there" and assume there's some kind of complaint or problem and take offense to their own assumption, and then downvote.

It's completely the opposite of HN "assume good faith" policy. Sigh.

flipped 4 hours ago||

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thiago_fm 6 hours ago||

Wish they gave FFmpeg a decent chunk of money, words are cheap

cheema33 4 hours ago|

They did contribute code. For opensource projects, good code contributions may be more valuable.

raphaelmolly8 3 hours ago||

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boxingdog 4 hours ago||

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BorisMelnik 6 hours ago|

Meta this is just SAD, Mark your company would be nothing without FF. Do the right thing and write a check today.

randall 5 hours ago|

This is the least informed take i've ever seen.

I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.

I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.

Suckseh 5 hours ago|||

You make a lot of money, Meta makes A LOT of money.

doesn't matter how you worship ffmpeg if a company, which makes billions by destroying our society, gives a little bit of handout back.

So good for you? Bad for ffmpeg, society and the rest of the world.

tt24 4 hours ago||

Meta has made more positive contributions to society and the world than every HN commenter combined, and more than most of the other FAANGS (Amazon being the exception).

tsumnia 3 hours ago|||

Damned for virtual signalling if they make posts about their contributions, damned for destroying tech when they don't. I love these kinds of articles and share them with students all the time.

JambalayaJimbo 2 hours ago||||

While contributing back to ffmpeg is great, this is insanely hyperbolic lol. Do you genuinely think Instagram and Facebook are positive contributions to society?

Suckseh 1 hour ago|||

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BorisMelnik 5 hours ago||||

I never said they didn't sponsor them, it just isnt enough, not even close.

and I know the teams love ffmpeg, there are some great folks at meta just not a lot in the c suite

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