> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet.
I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears.
Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.
It's how LLMs write. The tweet / article is written by an LLM and that's how it does.
Without YouTube and porn, is there really an internet?
More like without video, is there still internet..... Absolutely yes. It's a tad hyperbolic I agree
My kids strongly disagree.
Fortnight isn't a video
although, somewhat ironic to your argument, I bet the intro that fornite plays when starting the game uses ffmpeg
It would still be a game without the intro video.
For us- sure.
For most of the internet users- very likely no. Social media and video streaming IS the internet for the majority
it sounds like paradise, we should start working toward this immediately
It’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.
Ffmpeg has nothing to do with the internet other than being distributed on it
It powers the content that makes up a lot of the time a lot of internet users spend their time watching. I don’t think the pedantry serves a purpose.
Most bytes traversing the internet is video these days. Arguably, ffmpeg has processed most of that video.
Then unicode powers the internet by that same logic.