On 4/17/2024 11:22 AM, Lynne wrote:
Apr 17, 2024, 15:58 by mich...@niedermayer.cc:
Hi all
The pace of inovation in FFmpeg has been slowing down.
Most work is concentarted nowadays on code refactoring, and adding
support for new codecs and formats.
Should we
* make a list of longer term goals
* vote on them
* and then together work towards implementing them
?
(The idea here is to increase the success of larger efforts
than adding codecs and refactoring code)
It would then also not be possible for individuals to object
to a previously agreed goal.
And it would add ideas for which we can try to get funding/grants for
(larger scale changes need consensus first that we as a whole want
them before we would be able to ask for funding/grants for them)
Some ideas and why they would help FFmpeg:
* Switch to a plugin architecture
(Increase the number of developers willing to contribute and reduce
friction as the team and community grows)
Just no.
Can you elaborate on why? The one thing i think would be problematic is
making the AVCodec internals public, which could get in the way of
improvements.
* ffchat
(expand into realtime chat / zoom) this would
bring in more users and developers, and we basically have almost
Better leave that for others.
There's an infinite amount of discord clones already.
all parts for it already but some people where against it
* client side / in browser support
(expand towards webapps, webpages using ffmpeg client side in the browser)
bring in more users and developers, and it will be costly for us
if we let others take this area as its important and significant
Maybe. Some WASM-based converter would be helpful.
Though it may put us on fire, as we'd be distributing binaries
of our code which may cause issues with "rights holders".
* AI / neural network filters and codecs
The future seems to be AI based. Future Filters and Codecs will use
neural networks. FFmpeg can be at the forefront, developing these
These take enormous amounts of compute power to
train, vast amounts of good high-quality data, and at
the end, you'd have something as lasting as wet paper,
because a competitor is literally weeks away, and they
beat us with inferior methods by simply having vastly
more compute than we do.
And we can't ship models.
* [your idea here]
We keep doing what we're doing. It's what we're good at.
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