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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago
[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 7 points 21 hours ago

Not to defend them, but he did follow up with this:

This is referring to the technology we just released into BETA for premium subscribers, which delivers one of the lowest latencies for livestreaming (significantly better than YouTube's latency).

This does not refer to encoding

https://xcancel.com/chrispavlovski/status/1856090182275215803

Although quality != latency, so idk.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

my company in a nutshell.

we made up a shitty name and a shittier AI logo for whats essentially an off the shelf white label appliance we configure a little different.

[–] Imnebuddy@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The FFmpeg team is pretty based: https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500

I appreciate they know the value of their work and criticize companies for their ridiculous exploitation and underpayment of open source devs, as well as claiming open source libraries as their own work.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

as if the technology is what makes livestream services difficult anyways lmao
it's just expensive as shit because it involves a lot of data

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

A lot of data throughput and buffer just for ingesting and distributing the live streams themselves, technical and business administration to keep things running, moderation to ensure compliance with content laws and data protection regulation, and then there's still all the other fancy features major platforms offer if you want to compete for users.

Multiple resolution options with server-side rescaling for users with slower connections? Graphics computing power.
Store past broadcasts? Massive amounts of data storage capacity.
Social features? Even more moderation.

And we haven't even touched on the monetary issue of "How do you pay for all that?" and all its attached complexity. You could be running the nicest platform in the world, but without any funding, it won't run very long.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's always ffmpeg under the hood

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I decompiled the gnu c compiler once, and yes, it was just an elaborate use of ffmpeg

[–] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

ffmpeg -i main.c a.out

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone not use ffmpeg at this point?

[–] butter@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 8 points 1 day ago

For them it's just "the code"

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 91 points 1 day ago
[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

... They typed "make all" by themselves? Nice. I usually use a script to do that.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It adds a certain handcrafted quality to the code that you just can't find elsewhere, like hand grinding your coffee beans with an electric grinder or turning the lights on using a wall switch.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

Newbs. "all" is the default target, so they did twice as much work as they needed to.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've worked for a major US media company and this 100% tracks with the kinds of things that would happen tech-wise v what the suits say

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

Most companies are incapable of actually building something this techical.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The downside is some shitty far-right service is now getting free publicity.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Plenty of non-neolib lefties on Rumble

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

It’s the same picture