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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, guess where vlc gets all that muscle...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

libvlc uses libavcodec

VLC relays on ffmpeg for a lot of video decoding, as do lots of other media programs. Go look up the legal notice on your TV and there’s a good chance the ffmpeg licensing information is in there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you look up the dependencies or legal notices for anything that does anything related to video, audio or maybe even images, it's very likely that it uses ffmpeg in some way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting there isn’t more info on the team behind it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

FFmpeg is one of libvlc's backends. A lot of stuff vlc can decode without calling ffmpeg.