2025-11-14 10:30:04
Today's important open-source software in our pipeline for #FreeSoftwareAdvent has been mentioned before. It's the video encoder/decoder #ffmpeg
We're using it to create h264 preview clips. At some point in the past it was essential for decoding proprietary files that clien…
Started the Go rewrite/translation for the `sisyphus-ffmpeg` module. I'd forgotten the joy of unmarshalling JSON in Go, but after going with structs full of pointers everything worked out pretty well. Still need to add a few more features like grabbing the number of frames for a video source, but it's working great at this point.
#ffmpeg
🔄 Smart file deduplication using symlinks, hardlinks, or CoW reflinks to save storage space automatically
🎵 Built-in media player supporting almost every audio format with on-demand #FFmpeg transcoding, equalizer, and OS lockscreen controls
🖼️ Automatic thumbnail generation for images, videos, and audio spectrograms using Pillow, pyvips, or FFmpeg
🔍 Powerful full-text search …