At Meta, WebRTC powers real-time audio and video across various platforms. But forking a large open-source project like WebRTC within our monorepo presents unique challenges – over time, an internal fork can drift behind upstream, cutting itself off from community upgrades. We’re sharing how we escaped this “forking trap” – from building a dual-stack architecture [...] Read More... The post…
#video engineering
6 posts
9 Apr
2 Mar
FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing. As an industry-standard tool it supports a wide variety of audio and video codecs and container formats. It can also orchestrate complex chains of filters for media editing and manipulation. For the people who use our apps, FFmpeg plays an important role in enabling new video experiences [...] Read More... The post…
14 Jan
We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new User True Interest Survey (UTIS) model, now helps surface more niche, high-quality content and boosts engagement, retention, and satisfaction. We’re doubling down on personalization, tackling challenges like sparse user data [...] Read More... The post…
17 Nov 2025
We’re sharing how we’ve enabled Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) on the Instagram iOS app to enhance the video viewing experience. HDR videos created on iPhones contain unique Dolby Vision and amve metadata that we needed to support end-to-end Instagram for iOS is now the first Meta app to support Dolby Vision video, [...] Read More... The post…
4 Nov 2025
At Meta, we use invisible watermarking for a variety of content provenance use cases on our platforms. Invisible watermarking serves a number of use cases, including detecting AI-generated videos, verifying who posted a video first, and identifying the source and tools used to create a video. We’re sharing how we overcame the challenges of scaling [...] Read More... The post…
24 Sept 2025
Today, Meta, Vodafone, and Google released a white paper, “Video Streaming with the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices,” detailing the benefits of the AV1 codec, an advanced video compression technique, to enhance the streaming video experience on mobile devices. The white paper recommends that: Vendors of core processors (SoCs) should evaluate the adoption of [...] Read More... The post…