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An Interview With the Developers of FFmpeg

Posted by kdawson on from the in-media-res dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the long-awaited release of FFmpeg 0.5, Phoronix has conducted an interview with three FFmpeg developers (Diego Biurrun, Baptiste Coudurier, and Robert Swain) about this project's recent release. In this interview they talk about moving to a 3/6-month release cycle, the criteria for version 1.0, Blu-Ray support on Linux, OpenCL and GPGPU acceleration, multi-threading FFmpeg, video APIs, their own video codecs, and legal challenges they have run into."

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  1. Re:Long Awaited? by bradgoodman · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's neither "just another", nor a "codec library".

    First, it is (arguably) the best out there.

    Second, it is an extremely powerful, cross-platform transcoder for every format under the sun.

    Third, it is an extremely diverse media player (mplayer)

    Fouth, it is the bassis for a countless number of media player and transcoding projects.

    As someone who manipulates digital video on both a person and professional level, ffmpeg is the #1 tool in my arsenal.

    Congrats on 0.5!!!