# ![@FFmpeg Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1283902819.png) @FFmpeg FFmpeg

FFmpeg posts on X about we are, $googl, up to, ai the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  15.32% [stocks](/list/stocks)  13.51% [finance](/list/finance)  7.21% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.8% [currencies](/list/currencies)  0.9% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  0.9%

**Social topic influence**
[we are](/topic/we-are) 7.21%, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 7.21%, [up to](/topic/up-to) #906, [ai](/topic/ai) 4.5%, [cloudflare](/topic/cloudflare) 3.6%, [speed](/topic/speed) #1129, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.7%, [theo](/topic/theo) 2.7%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 2.7%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.7%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@tencentglobal](/creator/undefined) [@_asadmemon](/creator/undefined) [@cloudflare](/creator/undefined) [@rush2131](/creator/undefined) [@theo](/creator/undefined) [@asadmemon](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@halfacrelife](/creator/undefined) [@dr_sensor](/creator/undefined) [@soumithchintala](/creator/undefined) [@cgarciae88](/creator/undefined) [@nithin0dha](/creator/undefined) [@cloud11665](/creator/undefined) [@joelcompiles](/creator/undefined) [@odudex](/creator/undefined) [@doodlestein](/creator/undefined) [@astrangee](/creator/undefined) [@azakasekai](/creator/undefined) [@yawaramin](/creator/undefined) [@espie_openbsd](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Flex Ltd. Ordinary Shares (FLEX)](/topic/$flex)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Not sure why but we have lots of new followers FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers. Learn more here: https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1953242648849813962)  2025-08-06T23:51Z 105.4K followers, 433K engagements


"FFmpeg's GitHub Sponsors profile is live You can sponsor us to support FFmpeg's open source work 💖 https://github.com/sponsors/FFmpego=sd&sc=t https://github.com/sponsors/FFmpego=sd&sc=t"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021559764908683421)  2026-02-11T12:19Z 105.4K followers, 18.6K engagements


""There's no value in FFmpeg on its own" according to this guy who doesn't understand the world value apart from its monetary meaning: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=77fH--tlIOk https://www.youtube.com/watchv=77fH--tlIOk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022755855741919609)  2026-02-14T19:32Z 105.4K followers, 59.7K engagements


"The rate at which some companies send FFmpeg patches https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2020983263205236903)  2026-02-09T22:08Z 105.4K followers, 51.3K engagements


"Huge patchset from @TencentGlobal adding hand written assembly code for HEVC intra prediction Up to ten times faster than C Companies which use FFmpeg should submit hand written assembly patches like Tencent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022661839268565061)  2026-02-14T13:18Z 105.4K followers, 165K engagements


"The patch was rejected and fixed by a human"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021730896160739799)  2026-02-11T23:39Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"RIP @rillian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021978041228972503)  2026-02-12T16:01Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Related thread from @soumithchintala https://x.com/soumithchintala/status/1985813490569998788 @geteviapp @FFmpeg it's clear it created the value and it's also clear that it likely wouldn't have created that kind of value if it was closed-source. most open-source software capture a small percentage of the created value to bootstrap themselves to more resources. ffmpeg didn't do that. https://x.com/soumithchintala/status/1985813490569998788 @geteviapp @FFmpeg it's clear it created the value and it's also clear that it likely wouldn't have created that kind of value if it was closed-source. most"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022756113087705464)  2026-02-14T19:33Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"We are superior one day i will convince the world that ffmpeg is superior. so far it only makes people stop reading my messages. https://t.co/ujalAIu0ZS one day i will convince the world that ffmpeg is superior. so far it only makes people stop reading my messages. https://t.co/ujalAIu0ZS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1672065979160072193)  2023-06-23T02:16Z 105.4K followers, 443.3K engagements


"The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority""  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500)  2024-04-02T15:09Z 105.4K followers, 1.6M engagements


"A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is @isostandards. ISO standards are behind an expensive paywall making them impossible to access for volunteer developers in FFmpeg or anyone wanting to learn about multimedia technology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1858654093985935740)  2024-11-18T23:30Z 105.3K followers, 398.3K engagements


"FFmpeg assembly lessons are now hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1883297538503299485)  2025-01-25T23:34Z 105.4K followers, 170.1K engagements


"No ffmpeg is old and outdated. is there a good alternative ffmpeg is old and outdated. is there a good alternative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1921523184936906892)  2025-05-11T11:10Z 105.4K followers, 2.1M engagements


"Brought to you by FFmpeg. H.264 4K and FFmpeg MPEG-TS default PIDs (FFmpeg service name removed). a launch like youve never seen before 4K livestreaming is here https://t.co/pIntFKUdgh a launch like youve never seen before 4K livestreaming is here https://t.co/pIntFKUdgh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1927506707921486115)  2025-05-27T23:26Z 105.4K followers, 196.9K engagements


"Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back) @FFmpeg Hey I have a question. Is FFprobe actually a reliable tool for analyzing media files Do professionals really use it in real projects or are there better alternatives@FFmpeg @FFmpeg Hey I have a question. Is FFprobe actually a reliable tool for analyzing media files Do professionals really use it in real projects or are there better alternatives@FFmpeg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1950227075576823817)  2025-07-29T16:09Z 105.4K followers, 956.1K engagements


"bring your C and assembly patches and fight like a man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952432318649712894)  2025-08-04T18:11Z 105.3K followers, 227.5K engagements


"@theo You would never manage to submit a patch even close to replacing FFmpeg in VLC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952440963739365678)  2025-08-04T18:46Z 105.4K followers, 693.8K engagements


"@theo Let us know where your FFmpeg patches are. There's a difference between being a "user of FFmpeg" and "developer of FFmpeg". The latter gives you the right to hot takes like "The built in ones are awful". That's because you have the actual skills to write replacements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952443698501025962)  2025-08-04T18:57Z 105.4K followers, 957.3K engagements


"Linus Torvalds on C++"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1954345563568394358)  2025-08-10T00:54Z 105.4K followers, 115.1K engagements


"Agreed learn C and assembly DO NOT let your kids learn C++ https://t.co/1HaWtsnlpI DO NOT let your kids learn C++ https://t.co/1HaWtsnlpI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1972048821082558760)  2025-09-27T21:20Z 105.4K followers, 642.7K engagements


"Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their CVEs. This was hugely demotivating to the fun and enjoyment of reverse engineering. The maintainer of libxml2 put it very well https://t.co/Ed1zSV4Lui The maintainer of libxml2 put it very well https://t.co/Ed1zSV4Lui"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978693812672217303)  2025-10-16T05:25Z 105.4K followers, 853.7K engagements


"Hand written RISC-V assembly code written by @AlibabaGroup Cloud submitted to FFmpeg Up to [--] times faster than C. It's great to see so many corporate contributors of hand written assembly a field historically dominated by volunteers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2013935355028709880)  2026-01-21T11:23Z 105.3K followers, 281.6K engagements


"Hi @AMD. FFmpeg developer @quink_lamy is not happy with your AI slop patches. https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21595#issuecomment-23753 https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21595#issuecomment-23753"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2016981960015437994)  2026-01-29T21:09Z 105.1K followers, 205.4K engagements


"Another example from AMD: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20994 https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20994"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2017203484446052381)  2026-01-30T11:49Z 105.1K followers, 13.4K engagements


"This would be a great machine to revive FFmpeg's Solaris CI In [----] the Sun Fire E25k was the apex predator of computing. This was the largest single-image Unix machine that money could buy ($2M fully loaded). This bad boy had: [--] UltraSPARC IV processors (72 cores) [---] GB RAM [--] fully hot swappable CPU/memory boards gigabit https://t.co/L5rzhAaGjI In [----] the Sun Fire E25k was the apex predator of computing. This was the largest single-image Unix machine that money could buy ($2M fully loaded). This bad boy had: [--] UltraSPARC IV processors (72 cores) [---] GB RAM [--] fully hot swappable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2018866287947157997)  2026-02-04T01:56Z 105.3K followers, 21.6K engagements


"@Cloudflare You use FFmpeg/x264 in Cloudflare Stream which makes extensive use of assembly language. Also please send patches. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/cloudflare-stream/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/cloudflare-stream/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2019750311011692854)  2026-02-06T12:29Z 105.1K followers, 40.8K engagements


"@_asadmemon @Cloudflare https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1989719096653402389 @cgarciae88 Teenagers have written more assembly in FFmpeg than Google engineers. https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1989719096653402389 @cgarciae88 Teenagers have written more assembly in FFmpeg than Google engineers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2019827805752877529)  2026-02-06T17:37Z 105.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@_asadmemon @Cloudflare Indeed much better than anything Google could produce: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978681891931709444 Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their basements libgav1 was written by Google Engineers. When people say we need to be more corporate more professional is the bottom line really what you want https://t.co/hG6evY0N69 https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978681891931709444 Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their basements libgav1 was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2019836126832583107)  2026-02-06T18:10Z 105.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@_asadmemon @Cloudflare If you build a product around something given to you for free you should contribute back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2019849428648235251)  2026-02-06T19:03Z 105.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Sorry you don't like our codec implementations in VLC. Looking forward to seeing yours. VLC is terrible outdated restrictive software. It still doesnt support external codecs. The built in ones are awful. We deserve better. VLC is terrible outdated restrictive software. It still doesnt support external codecs. The built in ones are awful. We deserve better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952427956271460692)  2025-08-04T17:54Z 105.4K followers, 2.2M engagements


"BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly 13:55:30 haasn rangedetect8_avx512: [-----] (100.18x) that may be the biggest speedup I've seen so far"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1945478331077374335)  2025-07-16T13:39Z 105.4K followers, 956.4K engagements


"@cgarciae88 Teenagers have written more assembly in FFmpeg than Google engineers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1989719096653402389)  2025-11-15T15:36Z 105.4K followers, 109.9K engagements


"@james_droog Because it means we (and our users) don't have to handle EMMS https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/emms https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/emms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2020187007335690382)  2026-02-07T17:24Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @thedawgyg: this is one of the teams most deserving the support of all major companies. if your doing anything with audio/video odds ar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021610782413160523)  2026-02-11T15:42Z 105.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Here's an example of Google's AI reporting security vulnerabilities in this codec: We take security very seriously but at the same time is it really fair that trillion dollar corporations run AI to find security issues on people's hobby code Then expect volunteers to fix. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164 Patch to fix an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault [--] a game from [----]. FFmpeg aims to play every video file ever made. https://t.co/9WryDgDpER https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164 Patch to fix an issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1984178359354483058)  2025-10-31T08:39Z 105.4K followers, 596.6K engagements


"@sndwv_ Talk is cheap send patches"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1762805900035686805)  2024-02-28T11:44Z 105.4K followers, 306K engagements


"It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology. Hot takes are easy writing good code is not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952442469217648673)  2025-08-04T18:52Z 105.4K followers, 874.2K engagements


"🚨 FFmpeg [---] has been released 🚨 It has many new features and bugfixes such as APV and ProRes RAW decoding numerous Vulkan encoders and decoders VVC decoding features etc. We have also upgraded our project infrastructure. https://ffmpeg.org/ https://ffmpeg.org/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1958976166926459302)  2025-08-22T19:34Z 105.4K followers, 469.1K engagements


"The maintainer of libxml2 put it very well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978390935433097310)  2025-10-15T09:22Z 105.4K followers, 717.4K engagements


"Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their basements libgav1 was written by Google Engineers. When people say we need to be more corporate more professional is the bottom line really what you want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978681891931709444)  2025-10-16T04:38Z 105.4K followers, 415.4K engagements


"We would like to thank @Nithin0dha for the $100k donation to FFmpeg (pending) While this does not solve the funding problems behind FFmpeg and Open Source in general it's a step forward to a sustainable future for Open Source Software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1982536990206668821)  2025-10-26T19:57Z 105.4K followers, 1.2M engagements


"Zerodha's $100k donation to FFmpeg while by their own admission not using it that much makes it even more generous. Companies with businesses depending on FFmpeg should (but probably won't) learn from such generosity. @Byte4ge_ @Nithin0dha Hi our usage is minimal and limited to internal functions nothing client-facing. But our donation was motivated by the simple fact that we view FFMPEG as globally critical infrastructure. @Byte4ge_ @Nithin0dha Hi our usage is minimal and limited to internal functions nothing client-facing. But our donation was motivated by the simple fact that we view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1983437954245877829)  2025-10-29T07:37Z 105.4K followers, 372.8K engagements


"FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers. Learn more here: https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1986050369630404959)  2025-11-05T12:38Z 105.4K followers, 351.6K engagements


"Our assembly lessons are trending on @github We have nearly 10k stars. FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers. Learn more here: https://t.co/u6MKBb4v0S FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers. Learn more here: https://t.co/u6MKBb4v0S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1986830627770098081)  2025-11-07T16:18Z 105.4K followers, 390.7K engagements


"@GregKara6 Google Engineers are not very good at optimisation. A bunch of basement dwellers beat them: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978681891931709444 Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their basements libgav1 was written by Google Engineers. When people say we need to be more corporate more professional is the bottom line really what you want https://t.co/hG6evY0N69 https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978681891931709444 Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1989338864918659270)  2025-11-14T14:25Z 105.4K followers, 604.9K engagements


"Literally hand written assembly The first time I got a request to SH4ZAM up a fast Fourier transform for the Sega Dreamcasts SH4 CPU I added it to the backlog knowing full-well it was possible to do with HW acceleration due to some obscure PowerPoint slides I found from Hitachi from a few years after the https://t.co/wOjXrnGdWH The first time I got a request to SH4ZAM up a fast Fourier transform for the Sega Dreamcasts SH4 CPU I added it to the backlog knowing full-well it was possible to do with HW acceleration due to some obscure PowerPoint slides I found from Hitachi from a few years after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2018867131031376242)  2026-02-04T02:00Z 105.4K followers, 85.8K engagements


"Remember kids "value" comes only from some dumb SaaS web app according to this clown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022756617607954609)  2026-02-14T19:35Z 105.4K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Patch for aarch64 NEON PMULL+EOR3 SIMD hand written assembly for CRC functions Up to 35x faster than C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2019415404108824626)  2026-02-05T14:18Z 105.4K followers, 111.6K engagements


"We have three Github sponsors. Thank you for your generosity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2020187814625935645)  2026-02-07T17:28Z 105.4K followers, 131.1K engagements


"We now have ten sponsors (Didn't realise @DarthPutinKGB was such a fan) https://github.com/ffmpeg We have three Github sponsors. Thank you for your generosity https://t.co/kWcVjHiK7r https://github.com/ffmpeg We have three Github sponsors. Thank you for your generosity https://t.co/kWcVjHiK7r"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2020265473326346332)  2026-02-07T22:36Z 105.4K followers, 25.8K engagements


"Direct link: https://github.com/sponsors/FFmpeg#sponsors https://github.com/sponsors/FFmpeg#sponsors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2020274617747718351)  2026-02-07T23:12Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Google are sending patches using Codemender"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021621454669046099)  2026-02-11T16:24Z 105.4K followers, 53.4K engagements


"It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles or rillian as he was known on IRC. Ralph began contributing to in [----] and became a core Ghostscript developer in [----] . Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem whether it was as a project lead on Theora or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers. He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox during his time at Mozilla which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself. Ralph was a great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2021977674869063757)  2026-02-12T16:00Z 105.4K followers, 78.1K engagements


"@cloud11665 @joelcompiles @odudex @TencentGlobal We support all sorts of compilers including proprietary ones like msvc and icc. Even different versions of a given compiler behave differently. Many compilers spill for no reason. We want consistent and maximum performance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022746910411444415)  2026-02-14T18:56Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Slowly making every X user realise why we use hand-written assembly and not intrinsics @FFmpeg @joelcompiles @odudex @TencentGlobal Yeah then its probably less trouble to just write direct asm rather than going through all compilers and seeing what they lower down to on godbolt 😂 @FFmpeg @joelcompiles @odudex @TencentGlobal Yeah then its probably less trouble to just write direct asm rather than going through all compilers and seeing what they lower down to on godbolt 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022753599516786972)  2026-02-14T19:23Z 105.4K followers, 23.2K engagements


"We have commented on "value" before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2022755858484961611)  2026-02-14T19:32Z 105.4K followers, [----] engagements


"More ARM hand written assembly patches from @TencentGlobal today cleaning up existing assembly code. ARM assembly needs constant maintenance as algorithmic approaches may need changing as newer ARM CPUs are released. (Generally speaking x86 is not like that code remains broadly the same speed forever)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2023028004385857964)  2026-02-15T13:33Z 105.4K followers, 38.7K engagements


"@doodlestein A terminal emulator is not used at the level of scale as FFmpeg by large corporations with limited contributions. Furthermore many of his formerly open source projects have been moved to non-OSS compatible licences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2023042301094928508)  2026-02-15T14:30Z 105.4K followers, [---] engagements


"If you're worried about a company from a particular country contributing too much to FFmpeg there's a simple answer: Send patches or encourage companies in countries you like to send patches. @FFmpeg @TencentGlobal I know that large portions of the tech community will say I'm just being overly cautious but having tencent involved in such an important OSS project is concerning. It's not that they would do anything today but in [--] years [--] years etc down the road once they have a large trust @FFmpeg @TencentGlobal I know that large portions of the tech community will say I'm just being overly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2023042576883032147)  2026-02-15T14:31Z 105.4K followers, 70.1K engagements


"@espie_openbsd @TencentGlobal Autovectorisation is a difficult problem especially for complex code like video codecs We support more compilers than just llvm including closed source ones so we use assembly to give a consistent experience on all of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2023139191618703650)  2026-02-15T20:55Z 105.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Yippiekiyay6 Ok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1921549570124697616)  2025-05-11T12:54Z 104.7K followers, 68.9K engagements


"Microsoft are at it again ;) gee Windows thank you for protecting me from the dread malware program checks notes . @FFmpeg https://t.co/So3g2QpmDG gee Windows thank you for protecting me from the dread malware program checks notes . @FFmpeg https://t.co/So3g2QpmDG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1921753570891780178)  2025-05-12T02:25Z 105.3K followers, 284.2K engagements


"We are regularly asked "How do I get a follow from the FFmpeg X account" If you have a patch in the project you get a follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922318503580721403)  2025-05-13T15:50Z 105.3K followers, 149.6K engagements


"🧵 We have many new followers so let's summarise one of the goals of this account: Many people think FFmpeg is just a command line utility but that's like saying astronomy is the study of telescopes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924183152391540860)  2025-05-18T19:19Z 105.4K followers, 131.4K engagements


"Now a 102x speed improvement using handwritten assembly https://paste.debian.net/hidden/c6f74d49 A 94x speed improvement demonstrated using handwritten assembly https://t.co/FI28GOONQA https://paste.debian.net/hidden/c6f74d49 A 94x speed improvement demonstrated using handwritten assembly https://t.co/FI28GOONQA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1925235293591871669)  2025-05-21T17:00Z 105.3K followers, 188.1K engagements


"FFmpeg is installed on billions of devices and you use it hundreds of times per day without knowing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1926807690312929552)  2025-05-26T01:08Z 105.4K followers, 160.2K engagements


"Famously this file is a valid JPEG and MP3 at the same time https://t.co/4AjAMvHuhO https://t.co/4AjAMvHuhO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1931748047597236329)  2025-06-08T16:19Z 105.4K followers, 635.5K engagements


"Thank you to the anonymous donor who gave us a blue tick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940909910717616494)  2025-07-03T23:05Z 105.3K followers, 118.3K engagements


"Reverse engineering codecs has been the lifetime work of several FFmpeg developers. It wouldn't come back in a week. @icanvardar @FFmpeg Within a week we'd have a replacement though the financial incentive is huge. @icanvardar @FFmpeg Within a week we'd have a replacement though the financial incentive is huge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1950349009408626711)  2025-07-30T00:13Z 105.4K followers, 133.1K engagements


"The current goal of the Linux Foundation is not to help critical open source infrastructure like FFmpeg. It's to use the Linux name to legitimise fashionable corporate projects like 5G Blockchain and "Content Provenance and Authenticity" None have anything to do with Linux. @FFmpeg Can't you try something like The Linux Foundation but for ffmpeg @FFmpeg Can't you try something like The Linux Foundation but for ffmpeg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1950689674416062531)  2025-07-30T22:47Z 105.3K followers, 129K engagements


"happy to fight outside sf uniqlo this week over this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952430589229068738)  2025-08-04T18:05Z 105.4K followers, 257.2K engagements


"@theo Writing scripts for a hugely unprofitable streaming service is not the flex you think it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952444109270171846)  2025-08-04T18:58Z 105.4K followers, 218.7K engagements


"We love all the open source video players which use FFmpeg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952446214232011197)  2025-08-04T19:07Z 105.3K followers, 214.1K engagements


"Influencers talk a big game but forget we were on mailing lists and IRC before they were born"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1952449630798758340)  2025-08-04T19:20Z 105.4K followers, 117.2K engagements


"@ThePrimeagen It's what Netflix uses to encode and decode video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952572100851474433)  2025-08-05T03:27Z 105.3K followers, 203.1K engagements


"@Huperniketes FFmpeg is substantially more complex than virtually all web apps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952927850329456901)  2025-08-06T03:00Z 105.3K followers, 71.1K engagements


"@free_twitr FFmpeg doesn't have customers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952928132446499133)  2025-08-06T03:02Z 105.3K followers, 59.2K engagements


"Learn C from this book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1953747403959378168)  2025-08-08T09:17Z 105.4K followers, 343.7K engagements


"The name C++ suggests it's an improvement from C. C++ is a downgrade. @MappilaMan @FFmpeg If you mean C++ then no it's a language that doesn't know if it's a low-level language where you have to control everything or a high-lelvel language where you don't know what happens and it takes mostly the worst of both worlds. No C++ in FFmpeg except forced by lib APIs. @MappilaMan @FFmpeg If you mean C++ then no it's a language that doesn't know if it's a low-level language where you have to control everything or a high-lelvel language where you don't know what happens and it takes mostly the worst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1953756663665627409)  2025-08-08T09:54Z 105.4K followers, 427.9K engagements


"We take online video for granted in our lives but there are substantial technical challenges to make it happen (almost always using FFmpeg). Followers of this account know we aim to raise awareness of these low-level technical challenges in particular hand written assembly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955359773798596930)  2025-08-12T20:04Z 105.3K followers, 137.6K engagements


"@jaidev_me Low bitrates and poor downscaling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1957528152298967080)  2025-08-18T19:40Z 105.3K followers, 71.6K engagements


"Great FFmpeg history lesson from @astrange_e and [--] is entirely correct about C++ developers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1957529413400272906)  2025-08-18T19:45Z 104.6K followers, 82K engagements


"Here's a great example from @GrassValleyLive. They proudly talk about their fast H.264 decoder (from FFmpeg) in Linkedin marketing yet violate FFmpeg's licence and ship FFmpeg as "nonfree and unredistributable" Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back) Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1961080272738189385)  2025-08-28T14:55Z 105.4K followers, 384.9K engagements


"This man knows a few things about programming. It's no suprise he's talking about C and assembly. Couldn't agree more with Linus here. Making your code running as fast as possible (or just faster than someone's else code) is the best feeling you can get from programming The issue that it is extremely hard to find the project that will pay you for instruction level efficiency https://t.co/Es4I4e4oMW Couldn't agree more with Linus here. Making your code running as fast as possible (or just faster than someone's else code) is the best feeling you can get from programming The issue that it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1963906649011224807)  2025-09-05T10:06Z 105.4K followers, 155K engagements


"We are making assembly language great again lol https://t.co/5t20NLaOEz lol https://t.co/5t20NLaOEz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1967685411385511966)  2025-09-15T20:22Z 105.4K followers, 208.6K engagements


"This is a great example of the (slow) realisation that the "(GP)GPU encoding" marketing has all been lies and (GP)GPU isn't suited for video compression. GPU encoders have a dedicated black box chip for video encoding. @FFmpeg @Petrroll @AnotherNewUser @CostaAl4 @astrange_e All macroblocks are dependent on all blocks In all frames Doubt that's the case There has to be an certain amount of frame/block sizing sufficient for this to work in a compute shader or multiple. The CPU can queue up too and VRAM can be utilized as a big K V map. @FFmpeg @Petrroll @AnotherNewUser @CostaAl4 @astrange_e All"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1972922035191124404)  2025-09-30T07:10Z 105K followers, 106K engagements


"@ErrStrExpGotNil Yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973121620639359399)  2025-09-30T20:23Z 105.3K followers, 43.8K engagements


"His contribution to preserving millions of undecodable video files for generations to come is monumentally underappreciated. But instead he's burnt out from dealing with the security "researchers" and corporate employees waving CVEs. We will never get talent like that back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978698025158508811)  2025-10-16T05:42Z 105.4K followers, 82.8K engagements


"There is a small community on X that dislikes that we post about hand written assembly. That's because they are the people writing assembly with intrinsics and other shortcuts that ends up producing code like the red line. On the other hand FFmpeg and affiliated projects like dav1d produce the blue line. Our friends at dav1d showing us the value of specific domain knowledge. dav1d was written by people in their basements libgav1 was written by Google Engineers. When people say we need to be more corporate more professional is the bottom line really what you want https://t.co/hG6evY0N69 Our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1978733370101187048)  2025-10-16T08:02Z 105.3K followers, 66.6K engagements


"Some people make the argument that intrinsics are easier to read than hand written assembly language: Is "_mm256_permute2f128_ps" really easier to read than "VPERM2F128". Aesthetics matter when writing good code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1979540381277843820)  2025-10-18T13:29Z 105K followers, 128.1K engagements


"We asked @grok to create an FFmpeg pledge of allegiance: I pledge allegiance to FFmpeg the mighty tool of codecs grand with filters fierce and streams that sing it bends all media to my hand From pixels wild to audio sweet it muxes cuts and makes complete. Oh open-source thou glorious beast convert my files forever feast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1982950983098417324)  2025-10-27T23:22Z 105.2K followers, 479K engagements


"FFmpeg takes security extremely seriously. FFmpeg volunteers are making obscure 90s game codecs playable making them playable in a thousand years. At the same time volunteers are fixing Google AI generated security issues on that hobby project codec. This account also aims to raise awareness of the challenges volunteer run projects have. This account also aims to raise awareness of the challenges volunteer run projects have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984890290935562410)  2025-11-02T07:48Z 105.3K followers, 79.4K engagements


"One of the big challenges is the security "research" community treats volunteer projects like vendors and gives them deadlines for release and sends no patches. @FuzzySec FFmpeg is not a "vendor". FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers @FuzzySec FFmpeg is not a "vendor". FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1985322562424045804)  2025-11-03T12:25Z 104.8K followers, 171.6K engagements


"@gynvael It's part of the problem for volunteer open source projects. The AI CVE slop we are getting is worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985354501901943203)  2025-11-03T14:32Z 104.7K followers, 32.7K engagements


"It's interesting how the security "research" community is happy to write the most ruthless things when they find security flaws. But get upset when called out about sending patches to volunteer projects like FFmpeg (or libxml2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1985510838191411421)  2025-11-04T00:54Z 105.3K followers, 78K engagements


"Not everything revolves around business and "value". Our mission is to play every multimedia file in the world. We are proud to accept hobby contributors for obscure 1990s codecs. If trillion dollar corporations want things from volunteers they have to pay for it. I love how @FFmpeg is conducting themselves online. It's a project that's created billions of dollars in actual value and has captured practically none of it. Their stance seems to be simple: fund substantial development or STFU with the requests. Pretty easy to understand. If I love how @FFmpeg is conducting themselves online. It's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1985818257727877515)  2025-11-04T21:15Z 105.4K followers, 154K engagements


"The most interesting and accurate technical responses on X come from anonymous accounts with cartoon profile pictures pictures of toast or other generic items. The one with corporate headshots and ex-FAANG in their bios usually provide nothing of value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1986716471297495392)  2025-11-07T08:44Z 105.4K followers, 155K engagements


"Patch by legendary "mkver" to improve hand written prediction assembly. Over six times faster than C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2002925429909569887)  2025-12-22T02:13Z 105.3K followers, 137.9K engagements


"Today's discussion in FFmpeg centres on the problems of developing for ARM. Hand written assembly functions that were faster than C on older ARM A53/A55 processors are now slower on modern ARM CPUs. The variety of ARM CPUs makes it difficult to provide consistent performance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2009233181543944614)  2026-01-08T11:58Z 104.9K followers, 36.7K engagements


"Many HEVC arm64 hand written assembly optimisations today from @TencentGlobal Up to 12x faster than C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2012210104376951247)  2026-01-16T17:07Z 104.7K followers, 153.8K engagements


"@vicpara @TencentGlobal Sure we have hand written assembly for lots of codecs. At this point AI doesn't seem to understand SIMD assembly well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2012372906907521082)  2026-01-17T03:54Z 104.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Hand written assembly for H.264 16x16 intra prediction functions. Up to 3x faster than C. Even small improvements are valuable in FFmpeg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2013675533385576569)  2026-01-20T18:10Z 104.7K followers, 35.1K engagements


"Many Vimeo staff were FFmpeg contributors. Reviving this account to say: Almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off yesterday including the entire video team. If you're looking for talented engineers there are a few on the market. Sucks to see something I built killed by private equity in a technology company skin suit. Reviving this account to say: Almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off yesterday including the entire video team. If you're looking for talented engineers there are a few on the market. Sucks to see something I built killed by private equity in a technology company skin suit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2014432945046462536)  2026-01-22T20:20Z 104.7K followers, 144.8K engagements


"Patches with hand written ARM assembly for VVC put_luma functions. Up to 2.5x faster than C. The rate of assembly patches in FFmpeg is accelerating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2015056529066471504)  2026-01-24T13:38Z 104.7K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Indeed a significant portion of the "C code" in FFmpeg today is for various tables (e.g huffman codes) needed by codecs. Not really "C code" as such. The assembly portion of FFmpeg needs to accelerate. @FFmpeg Soon ffmpeg will become an assembly library instead of C. Performance is all that matters. @FFmpeg Soon ffmpeg will become an assembly library instead of C. Performance is all that matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2015146772583096746)  2026-01-24T19:36Z 104.7K followers, 73.6K engagements


"@AzakaSekai_ A commit message is not the place to explain how to install gcc from pacman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2017124932581277701)  2026-01-30T06:37Z 104.7K followers, 19.9K engagements


"@witchcapture @AzakaSekai_ FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers. AMD is a [---] billion dollar market cap company"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2017193737164620265)  2026-01-30T11:10Z 104.7K followers, [----] engagements


"FFmpeg developer @frankplow speaking about his work on FFmpeg VVC decoder at @smpteuk event at @SkyUK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885044998808248560)  2025-01-30T19:18Z 105.4K followers, 11.7K engagements


"@soham_btw Thank you for raising an important issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1941053482225881356)  2025-07-04T08:36Z 105.4K followers, 33K engagements


"FFmpeg's VVC decoder is no longer experimental 🎉🎉🎉 https://git.videolan.org/p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6df0c5f9f4c3261acf5b0efe43597b9eb765d6b6 https://git.videolan.org/p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6df0c5f9f4c3261acf5b0efe43597b9eb765d6b6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1832107961642357029)  2024-09-06T17:25Z 105.4K followers, 36.7K engagements

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