derdlick

So regulations on small cars forced people to buy larger vehicles, and their solution is even more regulations, just this time on larger vehicles? How about just relax regulations on the smallest vehicles, making them more feasible?

I don't use intel or nvidia, nor really care if they are only willing to cooperate with homogenius ecosystems. Open source developers seem to treat their own little parts of the stack as their fiefdoms, afraid any competition. Then, eventually, someone figures out they can leverage that position against the user. It's toxic, and for some reason, is heavily promoted by hackernews types. It doesn't hurt anyone if someone works on their own project seperate from everyone else. Anyone that develops code is contributing, no matter where that code goes.

It's sad that there aren't any alternatives to ffmpeg. It could have been a mutually beneficial relationship if they dropped the antagonism and uncooperative behaviors. Instead they just essentially killed libav.