--- title: FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale | daily.dev description: Meta runs FFmpeg and ffprobe tens of billions of times daily to handle over 1 billion video uploads. For years, Meta maintained an internal FFmpeg fork to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale-ftk671jjr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale | daily.dev og:description: Meta runs FFmpeg and ffprobe tens of billions of times daily to handle over 1 billion video uploads. For years, Meta maintained an internal FFmpeg fork to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale-ftk671jjr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FTK671JjR.png og:image:alt: FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale **[Facebook Engineering ](https://daily.dev/sources/facebook_code)** · 7 min read · 147 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta runs FFmpeg and ffprobe tens of billions of times daily to handle over 1 billion video uploads. For years, Meta maintained an internal FFmpeg fork to support threaded multi-lane encoding and real-time quality metrics. By collaborating with FFmpeg developers, FFlabs, and VideoLAN, Meta contributed these capabilities upstream—threaded multi-lane encoding landed in FFmpeg 6.0/8.0 and in-loop decoding for real-time quality metrics in 7.0—allowing Meta to fully deprecate its internal fork for VOD and livestreaming pipelines. Meta also integrated its custom MSVP video transcoding ASIC via FFmpeg's standard hardware APIs, though that integration remains internal since the hardware isn't publicly accessible. Meta plans to continue investing in upstream FFmpeg development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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