History of Open Source Video Transcoder – FFmpeg

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The logo of ffmpeg is a zigzag patterm. This is how MPEG video handle entropy encoding. FFmpeg can be used in all types of operating systems such as windows, linux and mac osx. It is an assemble of video codecs and audio codecs developed by a group of open source developers. It supports video format conversion, video streaming, and recording.

There are many other open source projects based on FFmpeg. A very popular video player on linux is MPlayer. The project is now maintained by a large group of open source and video enthusiasts.

Because no one has taken on commercial support yet. FFmpeg development is driven by the tasks that are important to the individual developers. If there is a feature that is important to you, the best way to get it implemented is to undertake the task yourself or sponsor a developer.

Windows DLLs are not portable, bloated and often slow. Moreover FFmpeg strives to support all codecs natively. A DLL loader is not conducive to that goal. For multithreaded MPEG* encoding, the encoded slices must be independent, otherwise thread n would practically have to wait for n-1 to finish, so it’s quite logical that there is a small reduction of quality. This is not a bug.

There are two video codecs and one video container invented in the FFmpeg project during its development. The two video codecs are the lossless “FFV1″, and the lossless or lossy “Snow codec”, for which a version 1.0 is still in development, and the video container is “NUT” which is also currently being actively developed.

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