N-gated Hacker NewsJun 12
🎉 Oh joy! FFmpeg's got 21 zero-days—because who knew video encoding could be so thrilling? 🤦‍♂️ Forget blockbuster releases, let's watch security teams sweat over #vulnerabilities scanners never even dreamed of! 🙃 Meanwhile, ninja #pentesters and dependency firewalls fight off evil code like they're in a cheesy action movie. 🍿👨‍💻
https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg #FFmpeg #zero-days #videoencoding #cybersecurity #HackerNews #ngated
21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg | depthfirst

depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to confirm its findings at a fraction of the costs ($1k vs. $10k). Several of the findings had been sitting latent for 15 to 20 years. We explored the exploitability of the issues and developed a PoC demonstrating a RCE exploit primitive.

NazoJun 1

Here is another #Linux question for those of you in #VideoEncoding / #Encoding . ffmpeg is super powerful, but it also has an insane number of parameters we're supposed to memorize even to do some fairly simple tasks. I need something that gives me the level of control ffmpeg has, but with a basic GUI or easier to use parameters at the very least. That is to say I want to be able to select what video codec, quality, which tracks to use, resolution, etc etc without memorizing a whole bunch of crazy command line parameters to do it. Way back in the day I used to do all this stuff with VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod in Windows. Yeah, ok, that's way back... I miss it.

I know there are editors like OpenShot/Shotcut/etc with a limited range of these functions. Is there any just encoder?

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 14
In a groundbreaking display of ⚠️absolute absurdity⚠️, someone decided to squeeze 60fps video onto a CGA, the computing equivalent of fitting a Ferrari engine into a tricycle. 🤡 Witness the #GlyphBlaster, a project that proves once and for all that just because you can doesn't mean you should. 🎉
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html #absoluteabsurdity #techhumor #videoencoding #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
60fps Video on a CGA? - The GlyphBlaster

GlyphBlaster The GlyphBlaster in action - is that a cat in text mode??  There's a certain genre of retro-hardware hack that everyone recogni...

Hacker NewsMar 20

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg

#HackerNews #VideoEncoding #VulkanComputeShaders #FFmpeg #GraphicsProgramming #TechNews

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending acceleration to formats and workflows it doesn't cover.

The Khronos Group
BigHeadModeJan 1

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@BigHeadMode/115818306418984921

Afternoon crew please check out my 85x64 pixel encode of a 100 minute #PublicDomain movie that fits within Discord's 10 MB limit. #encoding #video #videoencoding #compression #AV1

Reddit Tech VN BotDec 9, 2025

🚀 ffdash: Công cụ mã hóa video dành cho terminal/SSH với dashboard TUI, hỗ trợ VP9 & Docker. Tính năng nổi bật: tùy chỉnh worker, quản lý hàng đợi, theo dõi CPU/RAM, lưu hồ sơ cài đặt. Mở nguồn cho Linux, macOS. #mởnguồn #FFmpeg #VP9 #Docker #Tiệních #openSource #TUI #VideoEncoding

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pi9zua/wanted_something_lighter_than_unmanic_but_smarter/

Hacker NewsDec 6, 2025

Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/detecting-av1-videos/

#HackerNews #Detecting #AV1-encoded #videos #with #Python #AV1 #Python #VideoEncoding #VideoProcessing

Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python

I wrote a Python test to find videos that are encoded with AV1, so I can convert them to a codec my iPhone can play.

N-gated Hacker NewsNov 21, 2025
🤔 Ah, yes, the genius move from #HP and Dell—a grand display of corporate wizardry where they graciously provide you with a Ferrari engine and then disable the turbo. 🚗✨ Who needs efficient video decoding when you can have that sweet, sweet CPU power doing... absolutely nothing? 🙃
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/ #corporatewizardry #Dell #techfail #videoencoding #inefficiency #HackerNews #ngated
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

Ars Technica
Show threadscyOct 29, 2025

So … while this is obviously nice for virtualized gaming, what about video decode/encode acceleration?

Is there a way to give a #Linux guest access to the host #GPU's video codec acceleration without GPU passthrough?

Just like it's possible to pass /dev/dri into a container, can I do a similar thing with a #QEMU / #KVM virtual machine?

#libvirt #virtualization #HWAccel #VideoEncoding #VirtIO #VirtIOGPU #VirGL

Reddit Tech VN BotOct 3, 2025

Tự động hóa việc nén video cho phim và anime 🎥🎮 | Automating video encoding for movies and anime
Người dùng đang thiết lập máy chủ Jellyfin và gặp vấn đề với dung lượng file lớn (1,5 GB/episode). Họ muốn tìm cách tự động hóa quá trình nén video để tiết kiệm thời gian và tài nguyên. Hiện đã xem xét tdarr và HandBrake, nhưng vẫn mong nhận được thêm gợi ý.
#TựĐộngHóaNénVideo #PhimAnime #Jellyfin #NénVideo #Automation #VideoEncoding #Movies #Anime

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