I think it is worth posting Tom Vaughan [1]( Father of x265 )'s reply here.
>FFMPEG is a media processing framework. It's great for simple media processing jobs (builds a graph, runs the graph). A build of "FFMPEG" includes that media processing framework plus dozens of open source libraries (filters) that do the actual work (x265, x265, libav, etc).
>So "FFMPEG" gets a lot of well deserved credit (it's the framework that lots of applications and well-known services run), but the core FFMPEG is probably a tiny fraction of the development man-hours in a build of FFMPEG. It's all the linked libraries that make it useful.
It is also worth stating this is from 2020. I am not sure why this is submitted now.
>FFMPEG is a media processing framework. It's great for simple media processing jobs (builds a graph, runs the graph). A build of "FFMPEG" includes that media processing framework plus dozens of open source libraries (filters) that do the actual work (x265, x265, libav, etc).
>So "FFMPEG" gets a lot of well deserved credit (it's the framework that lots of applications and well-known services run), but the core FFMPEG is probably a tiny fraction of the development man-hours in a build of FFMPEG. It's all the linked libraries that make it useful.
It is also worth stating this is from 2020. I am not sure why this is submitted now.
[1] https://twitter.com/tmvn/status/1258610308962111490