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shamirallibhaion The story of FFmpeg (and how it ended up everywhere)

is satoshi and the ffmpeg founder the same person??!

shamirallibhaion The story of FFmpeg (and how it ended up everywhere)

I work with FFmpeg all the time. It's an amazing piece of oss. But didn't know its history. Pretty wild backstory with its founder and internal civil war.

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I love stories like this one because it is a good reminder you can just do. No permission needed, excuses be damned.

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David F. Sandberg made fear go viral—with one light switch.

No film school. No connections. Just a Canon 7D, a hallway, and his wife. He uploaded a $0 short called Lights Out to YouTube—and Hollywood called back.

Fast forward: he’s directing Shazam! for DC.

While most people wait for permission to start, David just started. Shot horror shorts in his apartment. Taught himself VFX, editing, sound. Uploaded every test to YouTube. Treated DIY like a discipline.

Lights Out hit 18M views. Warner Bros came knocking. He stayed scrappy even on studio sets—previz in Blender, edits in Premiere, storyboards by hand.

He didn’t ask to be a filmmaker. He acted like one.

If you need a sign to just make the damn thing—this is it.

shamirallibhaion A Woman Who Saved Toy Story 2 from Deletion

this is the takeaway!

shamirallibhaion Ask HN: Any solution to photoshop and deepfakes?

I have been thinking about this problem for awhile.

The short answer to your question is yes, it is possible. We have a prototype, called Amber, that establishes authenticity for audio and video recordings by fingerprinting and tracking provenance. Even if the video is cut or combined with other content, we can tell you whether it is the original (notwithstanding the edit in length). It is lightweight and needs the recorder to participate.

For most people and most video consumption purposes, it is not pertinent. But for certain companies and certain areas of the government, establishing fact or minimizing trust in visual/aural evidence is critical, especially when you have stakeholders who are independent or even antagonistic.

We are early stages and seeking to test it out with potential customers and their use case applications. The splash page is here: https://ambervideo.co and we hope to release the demo web / mobile apps soon.