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What's in this PR

This adds an article, "Driving FFmpeg from Java Without Deadlocks or Broken Files", and my author profile.

It covers running FFmpeg and ffprobe from Java 21+ with ProcessBuilder:

• the deadlock you get when stderr isn't read, shown with a timeout and the 64 KiB pipe
• ffprobe's JSON mapped onto records with Jackson 3
• live progress from -progress pipe:1
• what destroy(), destroyForcibly() and q on stdin each leave on disk
• parallel encodes with virtual threads and a semaphore, and why the CPU sets the limit
• two-pass loudnorm to -14 LUFS

I drafted this with help from an AI assistant. Every example was compiled and run on OpenJDK 21.0.13 and 27.0.1 with FFmpeg 9.0.2, and the output in the article is copied from those runs. The full examples and a script that generates the test media are in the post folder, so anyone can rerun them.

I'm happy to change the length, the categories or the date, or to drop the example files from the folder if you'd rather keep posts lighter.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an author profile for Mark Santos, including a biography, avatar, and links to his website and GitHub.
• Documentation
  • Added a guide to working with FFmpeg from Java, with runnable examples for inspecting media, tracking encoding progress, handling process output and cancellation, running encodes concurrently, and normalizing audio.
  • Added a script for generating sample media used by the guide.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a draft tutorial with Java and shell examples for FFmpeg process handling, probing, encoding, and loudness normalization. It also adds front matter for Mark Santos’s author profile.

Changes: Java and FFmpeg tutorial

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Process streams and lifecycle examples draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/{Deadlock,Drained,Carriers,CloseTest}.java, draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/index.md, draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/make-media.sh	Adds examples and tutorial guidance on subprocess stream handling and process lifecycle behavior. The shell script generates media inputs for the examples.
Media probing and encoding progress draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/{Probe,Progress}.java, draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/index.md	Adds ffprobe JSON metadata parsing and FFmpeg progress reporting, with related tutorial examples and notes.
Cancellation and bounded batch encoding draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/{Cancel,Batch}.java, draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/index.md	Adds examples for stopping FFmpeg processes and limiting concurrent batch encodes.
Two-pass loudness normalization draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Loudnorm.java, draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/index.md	Adds a two-pass loudness-normalization example. The first pass measures loudness; the second uses those measurements for linear normalization.

Mark Santos author profile

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Author profile front matter content/authors/mark-santos/_index.md	Adds profile details, avatar filenames, GitHub and website links, and empty values for other profile fields.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: fdelporte

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 81dc4

This PR adds draft tutorial content and sample programs. A few examples can hang or throw on unusual inputs such as a zero concurrency limit, audio-only media, or damaged files. Fixing them before publication would keep the article's examples correct, and no production system is affected.

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Review comments at @draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Batch.java:
- Line 27: Validate that the concurrency limit is greater than zero before
submitting any tasks in the Batch flow that initializes slots with Semaphore;
reject zero and negative values so tasks cannot block indefinitely. Update the
matching article snippet to show the same validation.

Review comments at @draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Progress.java:
- Line 12: Update the progress parsing in the Snapshot construction to handle
blocks without the “frame” field without throwing NumberFormatException; make
the frame count optional or reject audio-only inputs before encoding, and update
the matching article snippet to reflect the chosen behavior.
- Line 44: In the ffprobe process setup in Progress, redirect stderr to inherit
before calling start(), matching the behavior of Probe.probe(). Keep stderr
separate from stdout so error messages cannot contaminate the numeric duration
output.

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• content/authors/mark-santos/_index.md
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Batch.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Cancel.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Carriers.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/CloseTest.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Deadlock.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Drained.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Loudnorm.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Probe.java
• draft/driving-ffmpeg-from-java/Progress.java
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