Germany To Protect Ffmpeg At All Cost

Tom Smykowski
2 min readMay 16, 2024

Germany open source fund just announced a huge donation for ffmpeg, the backbone of video on the internet

Few people know that, but the boom for showing videos online started because of ffmpeg.

Ffmpeg is a command line utility to convert, optimize and edit video files. In the early days it was very hard…

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