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985 points gyan | 2 comments | 22 Aug 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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JadoJodo ◴[22 Aug 25 15:40 UTC] No.44985924[source]▶
I don't know a huge amount about video encoding, but I presume this is one of those libraries outlined in xkcd 2347[0]?

[0] - https://xkcd.com/2347/

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1. aidenn0 ◴[22 Aug 25 16:10 UTC] No.44986304[source]▶
Pretty much.

It also was originally authored by the same person who did lzexe, tcc, qemu, and the current leader for the large text compression benchmark.

Oh, and for most of the 2010's there was a fork due to interpersonal issues on the team.

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2. syockit ◴[23 Aug 25 09:25 UTC] No.44994602[source]▶
Brings back memories. There was a time when the fork, libav, became the default on Ubuntu, and ffmpeg commands would say "this command is no longer maintained" or so. That was where I learned that there was a fork, and I thought ffmpeg was going to die as a result because there was heavy development activity on libav compared to ffmpeg initially. Surprise, ffmpeg outlived its fork!

This post talks about the situation back then: https://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html