This announcement has its roots in the FFmpeg/libav fork. For a long time, FFmpeg resources were hosted on the MPlayer server. (Not sure if they still are; its

This announcement has its roots in the FFmpeg/libav fork. For a long time, FFmpeg resources were hosted on the MPlayer server. (Not sure if they still are; its git has been migrated to videolan at least.) Like a number of OSS devs, people on both sides of the fork share traits of being a) brilliant hackers, b) stubborn and c) prone to mannerisms that people may interpret as rude or inflammatory, whether intentional or not. I for one am sad to see this whole fork happen. If it were driven by interests pursuing divergent goals, then that's understandable, but this fork is purely politics. Codec development is already an arcane art, and there are dozens of RE'd (or poorly documented) codecs in the FFmpeg codebase. Splitting up development and maintenance effort is not going to help anybody in this case.