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by hddqsb 1054 days ago
Yeah, the etymology suggested by the top-level comment is completely wrong. Wikipedia says

> The name of the project is inspired by the MPEG video standards group, together with "FF" for "fast forward"

Corresponding source (Fabrice Bellard himself): https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2006-February/0103...