@FFmpeg Lol yep. I just donated. Thank you for everything you do. Keep up the great work 👊

@lexfridman Thanks Lex!

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@FFmpeg Most unhinged Twitter account of a software ever.

@FFmpeg no we use ffmpeg

@FFmpeg 🤣😂💯

@FFmpeg i use ffprobe

@FFmpeg I was working for a company building a streaming platform and it had a neat GIF-making/captioning feature so you could share a moment from a show. I checked the code and realized it was just shelling to ffmpeg. So I made a GIF and captioned it: '; rails r "User.delete_all"'

@FFmpeg Unfortunately most corporations abuse open source software =/ Like what they do with GNU/Linux. They use a lot of free software but limit user choices when dealing with apps in user space, or force locked bootloaders and so on (like most Android fraudulent manufacturers).

@FFmpeg Mostly true, but not always. I worked on live video streaming software in the past where we built completely our own mux/demux and encoding/decoding engines that had veryyyy low latency constraints and required heavy custom-written low level code.

@FFmpeg it's the sad reality of oss unfortunately. everyone should give back to the oss community if they receive something from it

@FFmpeg Every piece of enterprise security camera software we used, I would check the licenses. There was not a single time that I didn’t find an FFMpeg license burried somewhere in there, even if only packed in a binary.

@FFmpeg This is what happens when software deprioritizes usability out of hubris yes

@FFmpeg Devil's advocate here, but it's hard to contribute anything back when ffmpeg is already so good.

@FFmpeg Can't you try something like The Linux Foundation but for ffmpeg?

@FFmpeg we're extremely lucky the FFMPEG team is ethical and non evil

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@FFmpeg Yeah, it's really terrible how some companies will completely rip off open source software and not contribute anything back. Like nothing.

@FFmpeg Man, I remember when I edited in Adobe Premiere and despite their kiddie-grade consumer version of Premiere using intels hardware h.264 decoders the full fat version would absolutely chug using Adobes own dogshit CPU decoder

@FFmpeg You guys have both the best assembly code AND the best twitter guy

@FFmpeg Professional got the wheel then they reinvented the wheel but it’s not faster than the original wheel

@FFmpeg ffmpeg is love, ffmpeg is life

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@FFmpeg I remember deleting manually old versions of CapCut (because CapCut can auto-update but not auto-delete it's old versions) and in the files there was a custom built ffmpeg.exe which had the copyright changed to some chinese names I think

@FFmpeg Savage.

@FFmpeg Sadly the same is true about many essential open source projects, including Linux.

@FFmpeg Yes, people will literally pay thousands of dollars not to use ffmpeg's insane CLI. It makes qemu look sane.

@FFmpeg Last time I tried to use it, everything was just too complicated and the docs assumed you're an expert already. That was a long time ago though, is it stil true?

@FFmpeg Have you been able to go after any companies in violation of the GPL? I loved the Stockfish suit although the recourse was very mild. I worked for a certain company who made heavy commercial use of MIT licensed open source software and did not contribute a dime back, so <3 GPL.

@FFmpeg Would changing to gpl3 solve the not contributing back issue? Or possibly a license that precludes commercial use without contributing unless paid under contract to the project?

@FFmpeg Without ffmpeg none of the media companies exist

@FFmpeg @nixcraft I was recently looking for a way to do audio transformations with Python and the package I got was just a ffmpeg wrapper too haha

@FFmpeg Many such cases

@FFmpeg Sad, but very true.

@FFmpeg I once worked for a company that actually had their own av codec. Now I work with ffmpeg because it's the only thing that isn't difficult to license for private projects.

@FFmpeg Real professionals know that ffmpeg can do ANYTHING and ask any LLM to put together the ffmpeg command to achieve it.