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by ChrisMarshallNY 771 days ago
Glad to hear this.

ffmpeg is one of these "Too Important to Fail" libraries.

I'll lay odds that billions of dollars rely on it, and it's an open-source tool.

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This is creating bad incentives - now the billions of dollars relying on that have no interest in fixing the issue and they'll do the same for other projects.
Or … we could look at it as a type of “Local Loop Unbundling,” ensuring that it acts as a neutral resource for all.