FAQs: Video FAQs
FFmpeg in Production: Codecs, Performance, and Licensing
If you've built a product that handles video uploads or live streams, you've probably encountered FFmpeg. Once you're in production, you need to decide which codec plays on which devices, how much CPU time you're burning per video, and sometimes whether you need a lawyer to understand patent licensing. What FFmpeg is FFmpeg describes itself
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How Do You Handle 'Temporal Consistency' on the Edge to Prevent Flickering Detections From Triggering False Actions?
Object detectors such as YOLO and EfficientDet treat each video frame independently. This works fine for static images, but in real-time video streams, it causes detections to flicker. Bounding boxes jitter, confidence scores oscillate near thresholds, and objects "blink" in and out of existence. In a display overlay, this is merely annoying. In a closed-loop
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How Does the Choice of Transport Protocol (WebRTC vs. WebSocket) Impact the Synchronization of Video Frames with Audio Streams in a Multimodal Pipeline?
When building multimodal systems that need to sync audio and video in real time, one question matters more than you'd expect: Can the lips match the voice? Get it wrong, and your AI character looks like a dubbed foreign film. Get it right, and it feels real. And getting it right depends heavily on your
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