Category Archives: ffmpeg

FFmpeg Google Summer of Code 2010

Posted on 2010/04/06 Tue by rob

Are you interested in multimedia software development such as codecs, containers and protocols? Do you have experience coding in C? Are you a student? If yes, apply to work on a Summer of Code task for FFmpeg this summer! The … Continue reading →

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A wedding, OpenKvarken, ffmpeg-mt, Collabora

Posted on 2009/10/13 Tue by rob

Well, I’ve been quite busy over the past months, despite my lack of blog posts.
My brother got married.
FFmpeg finally has channel layout support for AAC and Vorbis. I’ve published my work-in-progress HE AAC v1 (Spectral Band Replication) code in FFmpeg’s … Continue reading →

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Chrome and Theora/H.264

Posted on 2009/06/16 Tue by rob

There’s been a lot of noise recently about Google Chrome shipping with H.264 decoder support. They’re actually using FFmpeg for this and a few other things. <disclaimer>These comments on my blog do not necessarily represent the views of all FFmpeg … Continue reading →

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bit rate, file size, quality misunderstandings

Posted on 2009/05/01 Fri by rob

It seems quite a few people have been confusing how bit rate, file size and quality are inter-related. A number of people have been using the -sameq option from the ffmpeg CLI and expecting it to output a file of … Continue reading →

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Updated the FFmpeg x264 encoding guide

Posted on 2009/04/07 Tue by rob

After receiving some criticism of my FFmpeg x264 encoding guide a day or two ago, I decided to make the guide a bit more detailed so that readers could better understand how to construct the necessary command lines to best … Continue reading →

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