Hardware Video Compression in Rust on macOS — ffmpeg with VideoToolbox (opens in new tab)

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. HiyokoAutoSync optionally compresses videos during sync. Software compression on an 8-year-old MacBook Air is slow. Hardware compression via VideoToolbox is fast. Here's how to use ffmpeg's hardware acceleration from Rust. VideoToolbox basics VideoToolbox is Apple's hardware video encoding framework. ffmpeg supports it via the h264_videotoolbox encoder. The difference on...