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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment order>In summary this is the very basic idea behind a video: a series of pictures / frames running at a given rate. >Therefore we need to introduce some logic to play each frame smoothly. For that matter, each frame has a presentation timestamp (PTS) which is an increasing number factored in a timebase that is a rational number (where the denominator is know as timescale) divisible by the frame rate (fps). Constant framerate is a very dangerous assumption to make…
For a second I hoped it'd be an actual low-encoder that does a clever lossless transcoding by treating H.264 data as a subset of H.265 data. But this just feeds frames to ffmpeg.
It’s good to have something like this. Last time I worked with libav the only available good documentation was the official examples and the ffmpeg (the tool) source code itself, along with the comments in the headers.
comments several months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990181
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 811
- Total comments
- 118
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-06 | FFmpeg library tutorial for beginners | dreampeppers99 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-01-20 | Learn FFmpeg the hard wayFirst breakout · Best thread | dreampeppers99 | 586 | 79 |
| 2018-12-17 | How to convert video files format with c language | dreampeppers99 | 10 | 1 |
| 2020-01-06 | Learn How to Code a Media Converter from H264 to H265 | dreampeppers99 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-01-07 | Learn How to Write a C Program to Convert H264 to H265 | manorwar8 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-01-08 | FFmpeg libav tutorial – from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more | dreampeppers99 | 142 | 36 |
| 2020-04-24 | FFmpeg Made Easy – An Introductory Tutorial | manorwar8 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-07-30 | FFmpeg Programming Tutorial | manorwar8 | 15 | 1 |
| 2021-05-13 | FFmpeg as a Library : libav tutorialLatest 20+ point return | selvan | 48 | 1 |