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FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale
Meta runs FFmpeg tens of billions of times daily and successfully deprecated its internal fork by collaborating with FFmpeg developers to upstream critical features like threaded multi-lane encoding (available in FFmpeg 6.0-8.0) and real-time quality metrics (added in FFmpeg 7.0). The company, which processes over 1 billion video uploads daily, now relies exclusively on the open-source version for VOD and livestreaming pipelines while maintaining only highly specific internal patches for its custom Meta Scalable Video Processor (MSVP) ASIC hardware.
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