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FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme used to encode files and images by translating them into a radix-64 representation and presenting binary data in an ASCII string format. It is mainly used ...