FFmpeg on maik.io https://maik.io/en/tags/ffmpeg/ Recent content in FFmpeg on maik.io maik.io en Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:19:55 +0000 The same commons https://maik.io/en/notes/2025-11-14-the-same-commons/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:19:55 +0000 https://maik.io/en/notes/2025-11-14-the-same-commons/ <p>Once again, attention is being drawn to the underfunding of open-source projects, especially small software libraries. They&rsquo;re hard to monetize, yet many companies rely on them. This time the criticism is aimed at Google. The company could do more, but has for many years supported the projects with staff time and funding.</p> <p>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »<a href="https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/" title="FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs" target="_blank" >FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs</a>« for thenewstack.io</p> Once again, attention is being drawn to the underfunding of open-source projects, especially small software libraries. They’re hard to monetize, yet many companies rely on them. This time the criticism is aimed at Google. The company could do more, but has for many years supported the projects with staff time and funding.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in »FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs« for thenewstack.io

Lorenc added, in an e-mail to me, that “Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons.

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]]> First governmental sponsor https://maik.io/en/notes/2024-05-16-first-governmental-sponsor/ Thu, 16 May 2024 22:04:00 +0000 https://maik.io/en/notes/2024-05-16-first-governmental-sponsor/ <p>The project blog <a href="https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#stf24" title="FFmpeg" target="_blank" >FFmpeg</a> has fantastic news to announce.</p> <blockquote> <p>The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany&rsquo;s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintenance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source multimedia software component essential to delivering audio and video to billions of people around the world every day.</p> </blockquote> <p>The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.</p> The project blog FFmpeg has fantastic news to announce.

The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintenance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source multimedia software component essential to delivering audio and video to billions of people around the world every day.

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