[Bromskloss]

> When I say libav*, I and most people mean libavformat, libavcodec, libswscale, etc.; the C libraries that form the basis of the command line tool and are widely used elsewhere.

Oh, so were those things called "libav" even before the fork, and were perhaps the origin for the name of the fork libav?

[Hello71]

yes. some people (including me) would argue that they chose that name in part to cause deliberate confusion.