FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features

Well known multimedia developer and VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf presented at FOSDEM 2023 this weekend on the upcoming FFmpeg 6.0 release as well as dav1d v1.1...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.0-FOSDEM-2023

[Danny3]

And at the same time Kodi is moving to use the upstream FFmpeg version:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22540

Too bad Firefox is not doing the same.
I heard once that Firefox uses FFmpeg too, but last time I checked Firefox was working fine on Youtube and I didn't have FFmpeg installed as it's not a dependency of Firefox.
So I don't see how the statement that Firefox is using FFmpeg could be true if it works even without it and it doesn't have it as a dependency.

[chromer]

And at the same time Kodi is moving to use the upstream FFmpeg version:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/22540

Too bad Firefox is not doing the same.
I heard once that Firefox uses FFmpeg too, but last time I checked Firefox was working fine on Youtube and I didn't have FFmpeg installed as it's not a dependency of Firefox.
So I don't see how the statement that Firefox is using FFmpeg could be true if it works even without it and it doesn't have it as a dependency.

Firefox on Archlinux has dependency on ffmpeg : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/

[V1tol]

I heard once that Firefox uses FFmpeg too, but last time I checked Firefox was working fine on Youtube and I didn't have FFmpeg installed as it's not a dependency of Firefox.
So I don't see how the statement that Firefox is using FFmpeg could be true if it works even without it and it doesn't have it as a dependency.

On my arch Firefox package require ffmpeg for quite a long time - it was added as a dependency for 44.0.2 version 7 years ago. IIRC previously Firefox bundled it's own copy of Libav stripped of any non-free codecs. Thus Youtube could work with vp9+opus. And OpenH264 extension was created to improve that on other sites. Nowadays ffmpeg is a dependency and I can enjoy AV1 hardware decoding on Youtube on Linux

[uid313]

FFmpeg is 91.5% C and 6.6% assembly. No Rust.

I wish it was written in Rust so it would be safer.

Canonical packages Firefox and Chrome as Snap packages which is great.
I wish VLC media player, mpv, MPlayer, MPlayer2, SMPlayer and other media players could also be sandboxed to improve their security in case there is a vulnerability in the FFmpeg decoder.

[brucethemoose]

My "dream" version of ffmpeg is basically a feature merge with VapourSynth, with (more) automatic pipelining, better support for external code and a more sane way to write out long filter chains than a single enormous CLI command (like VapourSynth's Python syntax).

[patrick1946]

FFmpeg is 91.5% C and 6.6% assembly. No Rust.

I wish it was written in Rust so it would be safer.

Doing is better than wishing. So you could just start!

[Danny3]

Firefox on Archlinux has dependency on ffmpeg : https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/

On my arch Firefox package require ffmpeg for quite a long time - it was added as a dependency for 44.0.2 version 7 years ago. IIRC previously Firefox bundled it's own copy of Libav stripped of any non-free codecs. Thus Youtube could work with vp9+opus. And OpenH264 extension was created to improve that on other sites. Nowadays ffmpeg is a dependency and I can enjoy AV1 hardware decoding on Youtube on Linux

On Debian the firefox package doesn't depends on it, it just recommends it with the libavcodec59 or libavcodec-extra59 packages:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox

AFAIK recommended packages are never installed by default, just the dependencies.

[uid313]

Doing is better than wishing. So you could just start!

I am pretty shitty at Rust, when I try to write it, I always get compiler errors.
Then I put the match inside the match inside the match and it looks like a tipped over tree.

I am pretty dumb too so I don't know anything about math or algorithms or media or decoding.

[blackshard]

On Debian the firefox package doesn't depends on it, it just recommends it with the libavcodec59 or libavcodec-extra59 packages:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox

AFAIK recommended packages are never installed by default, just the dependencies.

But libavcodec IS ffmpeg