Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit

> However, in 2023, MPEG LA was acquired by Via-LA, and everything changed. When I reached out to Via-LA in late 2024 to confirm FFmpegKit’s position under their terms, I received no response.

The real reason. Greedy bastards, and the risk of your business being set on fire by greedy bastards, even if they don't have a right to anything - they can still threaten to waste your time and money and offer a shakedown instead.

I've never used FFmpegKit (I've mostly just used the command-line, or indirectly via yt-dlp and Handbrake) but just hearing about it now, the maintainer sounds like an awesome person who really went above and beyond to support free software, so hooray for them! I bet it was useful for thousands of other projects, and those people are all grateful too.

Re: Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit

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Post by rwmj » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

scosman wrote: post #8

rwmj wrote: post #3

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They are writing the article for a specific audience: ffmpegkit users. All tech articles assume some prior technical knowledge.

And yet it was posted here and many people who know nothing of the project will read it. Writing a sentence saying what the thing is takes a few words.