Understanding the Benefits and Limitations of FFmpeg, Gstreamer, and GPAC

In this very technical session, we speak with Romain Bouqueau, a main contributor to GPAC and founder and CEO of Motion Spell, the licensing arm of GPAC. GPAC is an open-source encoding and packaging framework that competes with and relies on FFmpeg. It was recently licensed by Netflix for live streaming. If you've ever attempted to deploy FFmpeg for complex transcoding operations, you may have experienced poor multithreaded performance. Romain will discuss why that is, techniques you can use to minimize this effect, and how GPAC and other frameworks try to mitigate performance issues. Romain will also help us explore the performance and feature set of projects like FFmpeg, Gstreamer, and GPAC. Attendees will leave with a solid knowledge of their transcoding and packaging options and a better understanding of FFmpeg's multi-threaded-related performance issues and how to minimize them. When you join live, you can ask your questions in real-time, or you may email your questions ahead of time to [email protected]