Germany To Protect Ffmpeg At All Cost

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 to handle videos on server. Therefore videos online were not popular.

But thanks to faster internet connections and ffmpeg online platforms were able to optimize videos for the web and for the formats browsers understood.

Until this day ffmpeg is widely used across many applications handling all the video workload necessary.

But no one knows about it, because it’s working behind the scenes. Interestingly enought it wasn’t created by any major tech company.

It was initially written by Fabrice Bellard, a french genius computer programmer. Later on it was joined by other developers that work on it until today.

As I wrote in one of my previous articles, maintainers of open source projects should be supported, so they can protect them and keep them going.

An interesting initiative in that matter is taken by Germany via the Sovereign Tech…