FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI

[sophisticles]

Good luck compiling ffmpeg with all of those libraries with a single "make". Even their own guide is much longer and that's only including a few libraries: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

I just built it with ./configure && make.

The dependencies are only needed the first time you build it, I build it from source every release so my system is already setup.

[Artim]

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Thanks for proving me right. Good to know you have the slightest shred of logic inside you.

[Artim]

Not true at all.

X264 used lots of patented technology, B-frames, AQ, psy-rd, trellis, do a patent search, all of them were/are patented technology.

What they did was distribute source code, which gas been considered free speech by the courts.

I'm not sure all the H264 patents have expired yet either.

Your opinion that hardly has much to do with facts.

[duby229]

Good luck compiling ffmpeg with all of those libraries with a single "make". Even their own guide is much longer and that's only including a few libraries: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu

ffmpeg has got a huge number of optional dependencies. Even when you have all of them properly installed, there are still a huge number of configure flags to wade through. Luckily though we don't live in an LFS world and every major distro has competent build systems made specifically for complex projects just like ffmpeg. It really is a matter of familiarity and proficiency, once you've done something so many times it begins to feel natural and you just get used to it and it becomes easy.

[furtadopires]

Could anyone recommend me a good way to use ffmpeg converter without CLI?

[sophisticles]

Your opinion that hardly has much to do with facts.

Not an opinion:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050238100A1/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/CN103227925A/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5650860

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11451840B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6167162A/en?q=(rate+distrortion)&q=(optimization)&oq=rate+distrortion+optimization

[sophisticles]

Could anyone recommend me a good way to use ffmpeg converter without CLI?

Selur's Hybrid, FastFlix, Handbrake, all cross platform.

I do recommend you learn the command line way though, much easier to set up batch jobs that way.

[duby229]

Could anyone recommend me a good way to use ffmpeg converter without CLI?

https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

or

https://github.com/n00mkrad/nmkoder

[tenchrio]

They do not such thing.

They link to places where you can download compiled binaries but ffmpeg does not distribute anything except source code.

They did this so they can't be accused of infringing on any patents, in the U.S. the courts have ruled that source code is free speech but binaries could be considered infringing.

Huh, I'll be damned it just sends you to the Ubuntu Launchpad, my bad, I assumed without verifying.
Found the link you mentioned that offers static builds but it seems to not have been updated for version 7.0 (at least at the time of writing, there is a git build but that one dates to last month). Not to sure if any trustworthy PPA offer it, leaving only building it yourself right now I guess.

[ssokolow]

Nonsense. x264 created a bitstream that can be decoded by the same means for h264, yet circumventing the patents on h264. That was the whole point of x264 and x265. Or with the words of the videolan team:

Copyright, patents, and trademarks are completely independent systems. x264 is good on the copyright front, but not the patent front.

(Originally, copyright was for books and maps and patents were for machine designs. The overlap happened when copyright lobbyists and patent lobbyists both convinced the U.S. government that their scopes should be expanded to cover software, but they're still independent systems.)

Basically, you can legally redistribute the plans for "the x264 machine" (the source code) but, because the "mechanical mechanisms it incorporates" (the ones listed by sophisticles) are patented, you need a license to legally be able to manufacture physical machines from those plans... given the nature of open-source software, that means "you'd better have a license if you do anything where the MPEG-LA will notice".

That's actually sort of the original vision for patents. Inventors are incentivized to make their trade secrets public for anyone to read in exchange for a time-limited monopoly where even people who come up with the same thing independently still have to pay them to use it.