Why is this how I learned that FFmpeg has a pretty great Twitter account?
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Just make a rust fork of ffmpeg, it can be ffmpreg.
Yes officer, this one right here.
that's a thing https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg
The readme is far too serious for such a silly name
This made my fucking day… ffmpreg…
I hope they’re doing it with AI for faster development. Now that Claude is open source, there’s no excuse to refuse progress anymore!
That's unironically what ladybird (browser engine) did
Rust should switch to ffmpeg!
Was jokingly going to suggest a WASM version. But then: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
I'm only asking this half jokingly, what the fuck?
WASM is great :) unironically
everything should switch to wasm. i'm not saying this because of arbitrarily. it's just very well thought-through. wasm automatically provides portability, sandboxing, and integration with other languages.
like, one of the things i still don't understand is why we don't have automatic sandboxing for every application. like, when i download and run a new game from steam, why isn't it automatically put in a sandbox? Why does it have full read/write access to my entire disk? i don't like that at all...
Converting everything to wasm would solve that automatically, and very easily on top of that.
Makes it portable across architectures while also providing sandboxing.
The fedi software I use (GoToSocial) runs both ffmpeg (Sorry, ffmpreg) and sqlite through WASM, also makes it easier to integrate it with Go code apparently.
Reminder that Fabrice Bellard, who originally wrote FFMpeg (and QEMU), also made JSLinux, currently based on his other PC emulator TinyEMU and using WASM.
This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to Java, so it can run everywhere.
You mean JavaScript so that it does the same thing each time
Except next to pools, no one should run there
Unless you have scissors. That cancels it out.
3 billion
Devices Run Java
3 billion devices have been running java for past 20 years.
Most of them have not loaded the kvm just yet, any minute now ...
Proof of stability!
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What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol
I guess not rust itself, but people telling them to switch to rust over and over again. They use a lot of assembly magic to get good performance, they aren't in C land.
The person behind their twitter account is a notorious shitter.
Well
That checks out for xitter
did you know, in spain (or some regions thereof) the "x" is pronounced as sh
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It's over 1.1k comments already, all the rusties fuming 🤣
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Huh, I guess the person who runs FFmpeg's Xitter account must live in western Europe (UTC+1:00).
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