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• How much of modern FFmpeg is written by Fabrice Bellard?

  17 December 2022, by Hashim Aziz

  FFmpeg is considered by many to be the work of Fabrice Bellard, and maybe even his magnum opus, but since he stopped contributing to the project (under the pseudonym Gérard Lantau) in 2004, I wondered how much of it can actually still be said to be his. By comparison, Linus Torvalds' Wikipedia page states:

  


  


  As of 2006, approximately 2% of the Linux kernel was written by
Torvalds himself.[28] Because thousands have contributed to it, his
percentage is still one of the largest. However, he said in 2012 that
his own personal contribution is now mostly merging code written by
others, with little programming.

  


  


  This despite the fact that Torvalds is still an active contributor to the Linux kernel, whereas Bellard hasn't been an active contributor to FFmpeg for almost two decades.

  


  FFmpeg being an open-source project tracked with Git, it seems like the question should be technically and objectively answerable, but as someone who hates mailing lists and the generally archaic ways that big open-source projects like to do things, I wouldn't know where to start in doing so.

  


  Just how much of the modern FFmpeg codebase is Fabrice Bellard actually responsible for, in comparison to the other FFmpeg devs?

  


• bash script with conditional arguments and output pipe not working [duplicate]

  19 December 2022, by Pavel

  Can u please help me with bash script for ffmpeg?
Trying to create condition based on args to play OR save media to file, so I've created this kind of IF:

  


  #!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "play" ]; then
    POSTFIX="-f matroska - | mpv -"
else
    POSTFIX="-y $OUTPUT"
fi

ffmpeg \
  # skipped personal ffmpeg stuff
  "$POSTFIX"


  


  Now when I try to run it with "play" argument it says:

  


  Unrecognized option 'f matroska - | mpv -'.


  


  So if I add this POSTFIX both variants to command everything works fine...

  


  It looks like something in my bash screens this args or something like that? Also I don't see in error this dash symbol before f option

  


• Stream mp4 file with watermark through a web using ffmpeg

  24 March 2023, by Jose A. Matarán

  I'm having problems with ffmpeg, probably due to my inexperience with this software.

  


  My basic need is the following: I have a series of videos with material that I want to protect so that it is not plagiarized. For this I want to add a watermark so that when a user views it, they also see some personal data that prevents them from downloading and sharing it without permission.

  


  What I would like is to create a small Angular + Java application that does this task (invoking ffmpeg via Runtime#exec)

  


  I have seen that from ffmpeg I can emit to a server, like ffserver but I wonder if there is a somewhat simpler way. Something like launching the ffmpeg command from my java application with the necessary configuration and having ffmpeg emit the video along with the watermark through some port/protocol.

  


  EDIT

  


  I have continued to investigate and I have seen that ffmpeg allows you to broadcast for WebRTC, but you need an adapter. What I would like and I don't know if it is possible is to launch ffmpeg so that it acts as a server and it can be consumed from the web.