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Michael Neidermeier, basically. People forked over the guy. then he resigned and here we are.
A bit more than that, actually. "It's not better, that's the reason everyone's been switching back. The short version IIRC: - Some people didn't like Niedermayer so they forked ffmpeg to libav - Libav pulled some dirty tricks that pissed people off -> They added an ffmpeg binary in their distribution that claimed ffmpeg was deprecated, while it wasn't -> They managed to get the Debian ffmpeg packager on their side an…
Dang. I'll pay to watch the movie...