FFmpeg's starring role at the BFI National Archive
summary
BFI National Archive compresses multi‑petabyte DPX and TIFF image sequences into FFV1 in Matroska using rawcooked and saves about 1.5 PB from a 3 PB ingest, digitizes 100,000 videotape works and records ~1 TB of off‑air TV per day, produces ~500 program recordings/day (≈800 GB) and ~1,200 archive records, verifies lossless transcodes with frame MD5, automates slicing and black frame detection, and experiments with FFmpeg v8 Vulkan GPU encoding at roughly 3× CPU speed.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00BFI and FFmpeg intro
- 1:27FFmpeg archival codecs impact
- 3:56Degralescence FFmpeg workflows
- 6:42TV off-air recording FFmpeg
- 8:50Film digitization FFV1
- 10:57GPU acceleration tools
- 12:47Training community contributions
- 13:31Closing remarks
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