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by blululu 2014 days ago
FFmpeg is one of those pieces of infrastructure that unpins modern media in such a fundamental way that it is hard to even imagine life without it. In the words of John Carmack: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1258531455220609025...
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It's funny when you think about it how much money is made by people writing relatively trivial tech on top of incredibly complex and technically impressive software written for far less reward and acclaim (at least, outside of engineering circles).

https://xkcd.com/2347/