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Over 100 security-report emails received in September already - and we’re only halfway through the month.
The chart is noisy, but the security workload has grown substantially.
If you’re a large company relying on FFmpeg please donate
ffmpeg.org/donations.html
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A few "behind the scenes" shots from our @lexfridman podcast
1) Post interview photo
2) Post interview @TerryBlacks_BBQ
3) Fatigue after six hours of talking
Thank you to all the people who took the time to write nice messages.
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Huge patchset from @TencentGlobal adding hand written ARM NEON assembly for VVC angular prediction.
Over 20 times faster than C.
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Here's a great example of the compromises FFmpeg has to make because of the wide variations of ARM CPU cores out there
That's very counter intuitive, I'd assume you'd get more consistency on RISC than on CISC.
But I guess Intel and AMD have an incentive to match the other's performance stronger than on ARM
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Thanks to @mypopydev, we have a Chinese translation of our assembly lessons!
github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lesson…
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FFmpeg assembly lessons are now available in Turkish
github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lesson…
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More ARM hand written assembly patches from @TencentGlobal today cleaning up existing assembly code.
ARM assembly needs constant maintenance as algorithmic approaches may need changing as newer ARM CPUs are released.
(Generally speaking x86 is not like that, code remains broadly the same speed forever)
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"There's no value in FFmpeg on its own" according to this guy who doesn't understand the world value apart from its monetary meaning:
piped.video/watch?v=77fH--tl…
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Huge patchset from @TencentGlobal adding hand written assembly code for HEVC intra prediction
Up to ten times faster than C!
Companies which use FFmpeg should submit hand written assembly patches like Tencent
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It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.
Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001¹ . Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers².
He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox³ during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.
Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.
¹ wizards-of-os.org/archiv/spr…
² media.xiph.org/
³ medium.com/mozilla-tech/depl…
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We now have ten sponsors!
github.com/ffmpeg
(Didn't realise @DarthPutinKGB was such a fan!)
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Learn more about recent updates in FFmpeg from this weekend's @fosdem
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eve…
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Hi @AMD. FFmpeg developer @quink_lamy is not happy with your AI slop patches.
code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpe…
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The infamous example how not to do it, was NAB 2023 where a company (Videolabs) had a booth
that appeared to represent FFmpeg possibly for commercial advantage without knowledge
or consensus of the FFmpeg community. And not donating any Videolabs shares to FFmpeg/SPI.
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Indeed a significant portion of the "C code" in FFmpeg today is for various tables (e.g huffman codes) needed by codecs. Not really "C code" as such.
The assembly portion of FFmpeg needs to accelerate.
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Hand written RISC-V assembly code written by @AlibabaGroup Cloud submitted to FFmpeg
Up to 14 times faster than C.
It's great to see so many corporate contributors of hand written assembly, a field historically dominated by volunteers!
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Many HEVC arm64 hand written assembly optimisations today from @TencentGlobal
Up to 12x faster than C
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