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by amelius 1232 days ago
Does anyone know if YouTube runs Ffmpeg internally?
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randomifcpfan 1232 days ago
Circumstantial evidence that they used to: https://multimedia.cx/eggs/googles-youtube-uses-ffmpeg/

These days they use special hardware accelerators: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/hardware/2021-ranganathan.pdf

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latchkey 1232 days ago
I built software to efficiently run a large number of GPUs (>120k) in data centers. That second link is fantastic, but it really gives me PTSD. =)
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