toolintermediate

FFmpeg

1+ years experience

1 projects

Confidence: 6/10

Proficiency Levelintermediate

Overview

FFmpeg is a comprehensive multimedia framework for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. It is the industry standard for media encoding, decoding, transcoding, and streaming.

Skill Evolution

Feb 2019

First Exposure

Required for enterprise media management platform

Feb 2019

Professional Use

Built custom FFMPEG 4.1 integration with Objective-C wrapper

Jun 2019

Breakthrough

Integrated hardware-accelerated encoding with VideoToolbox

✨ Achieved 15-20x performance improvement through hardware acceleration

Technical Depth

Core Concepts

• Codecs - Video and audio compression formats (H.264, H.265, ProRes, DNxHD)
• Containers - File formats that hold audio and video streams (MOV, MP4, MKV)
• Transcoding - Converting between different formats and codecs
• Streams - Handling input and output media streams

Advanced Topics

• Hardware acceleration integration (VideoToolbox, NVENC)
• Professional broadcast formats (ProRes, DNxHD, XDCAM)
• Custom filter graphs
• Memory-efficient streaming

Tools & Ecosystem

libavcodec - Codec librarylibavformat - Format I/O librarylibavfilter - Filter frameworkffprobe - Media analysis tool

Evidence & Achievements

Key Achievements

✓Built Objective-C wrapper for FFMPEG 4.1
✓Integrated hardware-accelerated encoding
✓Professional format support (ProRes, DNxHD, XDCAM)

Metrics

📊 15-20x performance improvement
📊 Support for all major professional formats

Projects Using This Skill

AX1 Media Management Platformprofessional

Enterprise media management platform rebuilt from web to native macOS with 15-20x performance gains serving NBC, CNN, BBC

Interview Talking Points

💬Experience integrating C libraries into native applications
💬Understanding of video codecs and containers
💬Hardware acceleration integration expertise