[ChrisMarshallNY]

ffmpeg has become the de facto infrastructure for video processing.

It seems to have done a great job of keeping up to date, with things like GPUs and shader language and whatnot. I guess that's because he designed a good extension mechanism.

I'm grateful for it.

[dylan604]

To do large quantities of transcoding, the industry was dominated in the world of using dedicated server and nodes to create a "farm". One system I managed was a $15k server, with each node being $5k each. Of course, you needed the hardware to run it as well. Now, install FFMPEG, create an image, and then spin up a new instance as needed.

A big Thank You to any and all who have brought FFMPEG to where it is!