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The universal multimedia toolkit. A diverse, community-driven project; posts are by individuals.

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1Aug 4, '25Sorry you don't like our codec implementations in VLC. Looking forward to seeing yours.70.8×2.2M25k8282.1k
2Nov 11, '24If you say so...65.8×2M47k1.6k2k
3May 11, '25No65.7×2M54k2.8k1.9k
4Mar 24, '24If we don't keep raising awareness of low-level programming skills, the skillset will disppear forever under a sea of SDKs, binary blobs and proprietary chips. C programming matter59.6×1.8M7.3k934753
5Apr 2, '24The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @Mic51.4×1.6M14k2.6k1.2k
6Feb 28, '24FFmpeg is written in C and assembly42.2×1.3M8.1k405434
7Oct 26, '25We would like to thank @Nithin0dha for the $100k donation to FFmpeg (pending)! While this does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general, it's a step 38.6×1.2M6.9k314373
8Oct 6, '23Your weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video - Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Disney+, Netflix etc etc, all run FFmpeg underneath32.1×991k6.4k788307
10Jul 16, '25BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly 13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 121.2 (100.18x) that may be the biggest speedup I've seen so far30.5×941k13k8661.6k
11Jul 29, '25Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back)30.5×941k14k1k922
12Mar 10, '24View post on X29.6×915k14k1.5k985
13Aug 4, '25It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot ta27.8×857k18k1.4k1k
14Oct 16, '25Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employ27.3×844k8.7k6761.7k
15Nov 2, '24A 94x speed improvement demonstrated using handwritten assembly25.8×798k9k5861.2k
17Apr 28, '24We aim to play any video21.8×674k13k8881.1k
18Sep 27, '25Agreed, learn C and assembly20.7×639k4k204314
19Jun 8, '25Famously this file is a valid JPEG and MP3 at the same time20.2×623k10k3641.5k
20Mar 23, '24Yes, we post a lot about programming languages and it gets people very excited and opinionated. But we do this to raise awareness that there is still a place for low-level code out20.1×621k2.7k115153
21Mar 23, '24FFmpeg will not be written in C++19.8×612k3.7k209185
23Apr 22, '24lol16.6×514k5.7k209265
24Apr 1, '25FFmpeg is pleased to announce we are joining the @DOGE team! We will be rewriting America's Social Security system in assembly language, for the highest performance possible.16.6×512k14k833511
25Dec 23, '24FFmpeg handwritten assembly language lessons being written. This week you'll be able to try out te first lesson and submit feedback15.4×477k5.6k4752.4k
26Aug 22, '25🚨 FFmpeg 8.0 has been released! 🚨 It has many new features and bugfixes such as APV and ProRes RAW decoding, numerous Vulkan encoders and decoders, VVC decoding features etc. We 15.3×471k6.1k407407
27Feb 9, '24Wouldn't it be great if companies which sold FFmpeg as a service wouldn't then...erm...attack FFmpeg on Linkedin? @slederer @bitmovin15.1×465k3.9k266197
28Mar 23, '25FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language p14.9×462k8.6k1.1k4k
30Jul 17, '24FFmpeg is written in C and assembly language.14.6×452k7.5k283314
31Oct 7, '23Also, video transcoding is one of the most heavily used CPU operations run in the cloud. So it's very likely that FFmpeg makes up a substantial portion of all of cloud compute! Tha14.3×442k3.3k240182
32Jun 23, '23We are superior14.2×438k4.5k454195
33Oct 20, '24Yet we receive essentially no support from these enterprises relative to the value we provide13.9×428k6.7k365256
34Aug 8, '25The name C++ suggests it's an improvement from C. C++ is a downgrade.13.7×424k3.5k141322
35Aug 24, '23Your weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video - Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Disney+, Netflix etc etc, all run FFmpeg underneath13.7×422k5.7k765274
36Aug 6, '25Not sure why but we have lots of new followers! FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases so we are providing assembly lessons to t13.7×422k8.7k6853.1k
37Jan 7, '24In FFmpeg we still make extensive use of hand written assembly optimisations for massive speed improvements12.6×390k4.2k303324
38Nov 18, '24A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is @isostandards. ISO standards are behind an expensive paywall, making them impossible to access for volunteer developers in FFm12.6×388k8.5k981723
39Nov 7, '25Our assembly lessons are trending on @github ! We have nearly 10k stars.12.6×388k3k2381.4k
40Aug 28, '25Here's a great example from @GrassValleyLive. They proudly talk about their fast H.264 decoder (from FFmpeg) in Linkedin marketing yet violate FFmpeg's licence and ship FFmpeg as "12.3×380k4.3k342414
41Mar 1, '24View post on X11.9×367k4.5k166200
42Oct 29, '25Zerodha's $100k donation to FFmpeg, while by their own admission not using it that much, makes it even more generous. Companies with businesses depending on FFmpeg should (but prob11.9×366k6.5k289331
43Nov 5, '25FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language p11.3×349k3.6k4341.6k
44Mar 27, '25View post on X11×339k3.1k173276
45Aug 8, '25Learn C from this book10.8×334k7.4k4542.1k
46Apr 13, '25No. (We might know a thing or two about reverse engineering video/audio codecs)10.3×318k4.3k94268
48Apr 1, '24Thank you to @bitmovin for the $1m donation to FFmpeg. This is an unprecedented level of support from a corporation. We thank @bitmovin for their appreciation and support for the o10×309k4.8k246154
49Dec 10, '24If projects like FFmpeg don't keep the art of high performance programming alive, this is the sea of mediocrity we'd otherwise live in9.3×289k8.3k463565
50May 12, '25Microsoft are at it again ;)8.9×274k9.6k262317
51Apr 5, '24🚨FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra" has been released!🚨 It has a native VVC decoder, IAMF support and multi-threaded CLI tool alongside hundreds of other improvements and new codecs, features8.4×259k2.8k262170
53Feb 3, '24Not in FFmpeg, we still write in C and hand optimise functions in assembly.7.7×238k3.4k181165
56Aug 4, '25We love all the open source video players which use FFmpeg6.8×209k4.9k80115
57Sep 15, '25We are making assembly language great again!6.5×201k6.8k235195
58Dec 12, '23View post on X6.5×201k3.2k330172
61May 27, '25Brought to you by FFmpeg. H.264 4K and FFmpeg MPEG-TS default PIDs (FFmpeg service name removed).6.2×192k4.4k219282
62Feb 18, '25Big companies use our (known problematic) AAC encoder yet none are willing to sponsor improvements6.1×189k5.2k256485
63May 21, '25Now a 102x speed improvement using handwritten assembly5.9×183k4.2k231365
67Jan 25, '25FFmpeg assembly lessons are now hosted on GitHub:5.4×166k2.9k4631.4k
68Jul 20, '24Today is a good day to remind Operating System developers not to parse untrusted data like video in the kernel. Apple does this for example.5.3×164k3.5k242260
69May 26, '25FFmpeg is installed on billions of devices and you use it hundreds of times per day without knowing.5.0×155k4.9k169163
70Sep 5, '25This man knows a few things about programming. It's no suprise he's talking about C and assembly.4.9×152k3k139407
71Nov 4, '25Not everything revolves around business and "value". Our mission is to play every multimedia file in the world. We are proud to accept hobby contributors for obscure 1990s codecs. 4.9×151k2.8k133120
72Nov 7, '25The most interesting and accurate technical responses on X come from anonymous accounts with cartoon profile pictures, pictures of toast or other generic items. The one with corpor4.9×151k4k310209
73May 13, '25We are regularly asked "How do I get a follow from the FFmpeg X account"? If you have a patch in the project you get a follow.4.7×146k3.5k55159
74Apr 24, '25Hundreds of thousands if not millions of CPUs run FFmpeg every day.4.6×143k3.4k57116
75Apr 15, '25FFmpeg approves this message4.4×137k5.9k281311
76Aug 12, '25We take online video for granted in our lives but there are substantial technical challenges to make it happen (almost always using FFmpeg). Followers of this account know we aim t4.3×134k3.2k124163
77Sep 1, '23Your weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video - Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Disney+, Netflix etc etc, all run FFmpeg underneath (someone asked us to actually tweet thi4.3×131k2.8k35885
78Jul 30, '25Reverse engineering codecs has been the lifetime work of several FFmpeg developers. It wouldn't come back in a week.4.2×129k3.7k112127
79Apr 4, '25FFmpeg plays basically every proprietary video format ever created because of reverse engineered video codecs. Now the same game is happening for still images. It will end the same4.1×128k4.1k289288
80May 18, '25🧵 We have many new followers so let's summarise one of the goals of this account: Many people think FFmpeg is just a command line utility but that's like saying astronomy is the s4.1×127k3.8k125334
81Jul 30, '25The current goal of the Linux Foundation is not to help critical open source infrastructure like FFmpeg. It's to use the Linux name to legitimise fashionable corporate projects lik4.1×126k2.8k165224
82Jul 22, '24Video conversion has countless parameters so can't be compared like this.4.0×122k2.6k50106
83Nov 19, '24The @isostandards tax pays for nice trips around the world explaining how important they are to politicians. Meanwhile a 17-year old wanting to implement something in an open sourc3.8×119k3k276170
85Jan 28, '25Interesting how the world has learnt what software optimisation looks like this week #deepseek3.8×116k3.7k275196
86Jul 3, '25Thank you to the anonymous donor who gave us a blue tick!3.7×114k3.6k3958
88Aug 10, '25Linus Torvalds on C++3.6×111k3.1k215871
90Jan 2, '25View post on X2.9×88k2.7k184134
91Jul 15, '24ICYMI: FFmpeg is interplanetary2.8×87k2.7k19582
92Oct 16, '24We'll give you one guess what YouTube uses to encode video...2.8×85k2.9k220168
97Dec 2, '22Hi @elonmusk, we hear you want hardcore video engineering at Twitter 2.0. At FFmpeg we've been doing hardcore video programming for decades (high performance hand written assembly 1.8×04.8k298133
98Sep 19FFmpeg 9.0.2 is out with bug fixes! 9.0-series highlights: animated WebP decoding, ProRes RAW VideoToolbox & APV Vulkan acceleration, Playdate encoding, new Vulkan/CUDA filters1.8×55k1.1k68106
100Dec 20, '20This is probably as close to a 20th Birthday as we can get. Here's to 20 more years of open source multimedia! 🎉1.6×03.6k66533

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