[FFmpeg-devel] Files crashing FFmpeg

Jason Garrett-Glaser darkshikari
Wed Dec 3 09:08:45 CET 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> From a talk I had with the Google engineer who runs the Youtube
>> encoding chain a few days ago, it seems Google's official policy is
>> that they're not allowed to publicly admit that they use open source
>> products such as ffmpeg (!!).
>
> I guess we'll have to continue using blackbox methods in order to prove
> what Google is or isn't using internally:
>
> http://multimedia.cx/eggs/poking-at-youtube/

Oh, it isn't even that hard.  Their new fmt=22 (720p), which they're
moving from "experiment" to "actually going live", has the x264
headers still on the top of the file.

Dark Shikari




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