An encoder on borrowed time
The last US AVC patent expires in November 2027. Until then ffmpeg-wasi's H.264 encoder ships on sufferance, on Cisco's binaries taught to run under WASI.
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Ffmpeg
FFmpeg thinks it has a disk
FFmpeg assumes a disk it can seek around in. Giving it a convincing in-memory filesystem, and testing the behaviour that would hurt most first.
One input, many outputs
afmpeg shipped single input to single output. Adding multi-pad filter graphs and multi-output muxing: one decode, two files, one pass.
The afternoon the agent earned its keep
Adding stream-copy remux to a WebAssembly FFmpeg build, where writing Matroska hung forever and the identical MP4 path did not.
Introducing afmpeg and ffmpeg-wasi: FFmpeg with no install, no CGO, no disk
FFmpeg in pure Go with no install, no CGO and no disk: a WebAssembly build running over an in-memory filesystem, and why it exists.
