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FFMPEG

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imgix

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+ 1
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OpenCV

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Pros of FFMPEG
Pros of imgix
Pros of OpenCV
  • 5
    Open Source
  • 28
    Image processing on demand
  • 24
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Smart Cropping
  • 18
    Reduce Development Costs
  • 15
    Efficient
  • 12
    Insanely Fast
  • 11
    Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters
  • 10
    Easy to understand pricing
  • 9
    Professional Features and Options
  • 6
    Lightyears better than ImageMagick
  • 6
    Excellent Face Detection
  • 5
    S3 as source
  • 4
    Scales to your company's needs
  • 4
    Great for Dynamic Compositing
  • 1
    Video encoding
  • 1
    Fast Image Delivery
  • 1
    Free tier
  • 1
    Amazing support
  • 1
    Great libraries and integrations
  • 1
    Automatic scrset generation
  • 36
    Computer Vision
  • 17
    Open Source
  • 12
    Imaging
  • 9
    Face Detection
  • 9
    Machine Learning
  • 6
    Great community
  • 4
    Realtime Image Processing
  • 2
    Helping almost CV problem
  • 2
    Image Augmentation

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What is FFMPEG?

The universal multimedia toolkit.

What is imgix?

imgix is the leading platform for end-to-end visual media processing. With robust APIs, SDKs, and integrations, imgix empowers developers to optimize, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos at scale through simple URL parameters.

What is OpenCV?

OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.

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