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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 2 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.481s | source
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immibis ◴[11 Nov 25 19:15 UTC] No.45891512[source]▶
Google might be aiming to replace ffmpeg as the world's best media professor. Remember how Jia Tan (under different names) flooded xz with work before stepping up as a maintainer.
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1. favorited ◴[11 Nov 25 19:47 UTC] No.45891901[source]▶
Google, through YouTube and YouTube TV, already runs one of the most significant video processing lines of business in the world. If they had any interest in supplanting FFmpeg with their own software stack, they wouldn't need to muck around with CVEs to do so.
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2. immibis ◴[12 Nov 25 00:32 UTC] No.45894875[source]▶
Not for themselves, but for everyone else for some reason.

Though it's more likely there's just some team tasked with shoving AI into vulnerability hunting.