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Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub (lemmy.world)
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[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

They either do use it or a heavily modified fork to fit their usecase.

But I am pretty certain I read about their usage on it.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago

ffmpeg codec

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago

Ffmpeg aint a codec dude.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

okay, let me elaborate: the hardware acceleration requires custom software to interact with it yes, BUT, they probably still use ffmpeg and just pass -vcodec custom_thing to it

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