{"id":1839,"date":"2009-09-23T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2009-09-23T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T05:17:54","slug":"happy-20000-new-youtube-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/happy-20000-new-youtube-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 20,000; New YouTube Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FFmpeg<\/a> crossed the 20,000 commit threshold today. Mans<\/a> captured the distinction when he submitted an ARM NEON optimization<\/a> for int32_to_float_fmul_scalar(). Does that warrant a prize? Diego presented the statistics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nIt took 7 years to get to r10000, but only two more to get to r20000.
\nFFmpeg is approaching warp 6 :-)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today was also the day I noticed that YouTube<\/a> upgraded their backend conversion system somewhere along the line. Nearly 3 years ago, I started poking at YouTube<\/a> to see what kind of multimedia files it can convert and cataloged my findings at the MultimediaWiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, I was clicking around on some of my old videos and noticed that this video which came from an Ogg Theora source<\/a> now looks correct. Actually, according to the comments (and I receive enough between all my videos that I rarely pay attention to any of them), this was working over a year ago.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to note that this means that YouTube\/Google keeps all of the source material that users upload. When it was time to recode, they obviously had to go back to the original material.<\/p>\n

I found that CSCD, KMVC, 3iv2, ZMBV, and VP6 video codecs all work; Vivo files, Westwood v2 VQAs, Real files with RV40, and the bastardized FLIC files from The Magic Carpet<\/a><\/em> are all fine as well; Wing Commander III<\/a><\/em> MVE files, id CIN files, and Interplay MVE files all transcode with audio but with either missing or glitched video.<\/p>\n

Sorry if I seem a bit sentimental about this but it all still amazes me. When I was writing the bulk of the subsystems for all manner of bizarre formats circa 2001-2003, I never could have imagined that there would be a website that would take the weird video formats as input and convert them to a standard video format for anyone to view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FFmpeg reaches 20,000 commits; YouTube has a better transcoding engine with support for more formats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t