On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 09:31:37 +0100 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > David Niklas (12024-02-04): > > Mark was good enough to privately email me > > Sorry for you.
;) > > And here I was looking forwards to the day when I could support FLOSS > > devs after getting a job... sadness. > > How do you know the money only comes from companies? > > He does not. > > But unfortunately it happens to be true right now for FFmpeg. > > In the recent years, the part of paid-for contributors has increased in > the project and eventually the guys who caused the libav fork have > managed to leverage this into a majority in the voting assembly and the > committees, and are now behaving as if they own the project. > > So the recent change, where you seen fewer and fewer original features > that cannot be found in any other project and serve a few users, will > continue. They have broken hard-burning subtitles from the same stream, > they have broken and are about to remove the SDL and OpenGL output > devices. > > Because they are not interested in these fringe features that serve only > a few users but are absolutely necessary for them. They are interested > in basic maintenance, wrappers for hardware (proprietary) decoders. So > expect to have only that in FFmpeg in the future. > > RIP FFmpeg. You were a good project to have fun hacking on. > > Regards, > Yikes! Thanks for telling me. David _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
