[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 21.36, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 6/19/2025 6:11 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
>> On 19/06/2025 18.09, Rob Hallam wrote:
> 
>>> The internet runs on Linux. Phones run on Linux. Embedded devices run Linux.
>>
>> Come on, Rob. The Internet doesn't run on Linux any more than companies run on Oracle.
>> And what runs on phones and appliances could hardly be called operating systems.
> 
> You may have a strange idea of what an operating system is.

Ha, ha. You're probably right. I guess I'd say that a real operating system, as opposed to a pseudo 
operating system or runtime executive, must at least have an interrupt driven, preemptive scheduler. 
Two days ago I switched FFox's blocking mechanism OFF for a site that I like and that appealed to me 
to turn blocking off so they can get paid -- you probably know to what I refer. I don't mind 
advertisements so much as I dislike trackers what pursue customers (me) from site to site. So I 
turned off blocking. Well, FFox promptly locked up, the Cinnamon desktop locked up, and Mint locked 
up. I had to do a forced shutdown (reset) via the virtual machine control -- no big deal. I assume 
that was because FFox didn't yield, but now that I think about it, maybe the fault was with Oracle 
VirtualBox. Well, I have a custom HOSTS file that directs Google and Amazon (and a few other 
domains) to IP 0.0.0.0. It normally works flawlessly. That lead me to believe that Linux locked up 
because it uses cooperative multitasking, but it might have been the virtual machine mishandling the 
preemption. I'll probably never know.

> Android is based on linux and is considered an operating system. Apple's IOS is also an operating 
> system. You won't find much else out there on phones and mobile devices - PalmOS, BlackberryOS, 
> Symbian, etc are long out of play.
> 
> Great lots of Internet servers run linux, but some run FreeBSD or windoze; all of which are 
> considered operating systems. Juniper, Arista, ubiquity, and many others in the router/switch arena 
> use either linux or FreeBSD as their control operating system.
> 
> In terms of database systems, Oracle does have the largest share of corporate use, but only ~33% 
> (followed by mysql, sql server, and postgresql). Lots of companies effectively -do- "run on oracle".

I believe that the SQLs are just services. But I won't argue the point.

Okay, consider *ux to be operating systems. I just wish it had more uniformity, a decent 
hierarchical menu, and something like Windows virtual links (which I guess MS now calls shortcuts).