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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by kiwijamo on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:05AM (#29680601)
Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer?

Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on my pesonal laptop is to satisfy certain GNOME dependencies (due to GNOME, understandably, dogfooding its own stuff). Everything else (including apps I use daily e.g. mpv, Firefox, etc) depends on ffmpeg.

  $ sudo pacman -Rs gstreamer 
  checking dependencies...
  error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by cheese
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gnome-shell
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gst-plugins-base-libs
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by libcheese
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk
  :: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk-4.1
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by roeles on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:58AM (#29682557)
I have used gstreamer for the Dutch Railways, to stream the announcements to passengers in certain types of rolling stock. The announcements are generated as text, go through a text-to-speech engine and are then streamed to the rolling stock. As you'd expect, every manufacturer uses a different method to broadcast the announcement.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by nabeards on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:15PM (#29686568)
Which text to speech engine are you using, if I may ask?
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by roeles on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:07AM (#29691424)
I believe this was a commercial engine from Acapela.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by jon-wood on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:26AM (#29681771)
RDK is the firmware used on a wide variety of set-top boxes, routers, and IoT devices: https://rdkcentral.com/

The core media pipeline is almost all gstreamer, ffmpeg, and just because I think it’ll surprise some people, Wayland.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by squeaky-clean on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:20AM (#29680688)
I work at a company acquired by Motorola Solutions and we use gstreamer, but I don't know about MSI overall, just our division. We also use ffmpeg for some things, lol.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by eschneider on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:01AM (#29683405)
Overall, they do not use gstreamer. You guys are the outliers. :)
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by dmr_92 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:53AM (#29682172)
Don't know if you'd consider them giant, but a former colleague tells me that Pexip uses Gstreamer for video-wrangling. (Hearsay, admittedly)
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by icelancer on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:35AM (#29681020)
gstreamer is ubiquitous in research labs that depend on video - extremely common
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by monsecchris on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:57AM (#29682927)
NVidia uses it a lot on their Jetson platform.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by eschneider on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:59AM (#29683397)
Yes. It’s embedded in a surprisingly large number of embedded devices.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by rurban on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:05AM (#29681149)
Yes. On Windows actually :)

Debian is not the best maintained distro.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by laumars on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:00AM (#29681637)
Debian doesn’t use pacman. Odds are it was Arch (though pacman has been ported to other platforms).
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by kiwijamo on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:55AM (#29681905)
It was indeed Arch. Not sure about the comment about Debian as IIRC it's more or less the same in Debian. Using gstreamer seems to be more of a GNOME thing than anything to do with distros.
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by ncmncm on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:19AM (#29681732)
Debian tried to switch from ffmpeg to libav. It didn't turn out well.

But it generally gives me no trouble.

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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by mijoharas on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:49PM (#29685196)
Could you give more details on how it did not turn out well?
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Re:All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) by ncmncm on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:45PM (#29687732)
As I recall, they were not able to maintain feature, and maybe bug-fix, parity with ffmpeg.
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