This guy (Fabrice Bellard) is my personal hero. I have designed and build with my team VOD service for leading local entertainment TV provider in 2009. We wer

This guy (Fabrice Bellard) is my personal hero. I have designed and build with my team VOD service for leading local entertainment TV provider in 2009. We were amazed at provided flexibility by ffmpeg. In no time we were able to hook up our back-end logic and go. We opted to "risk" with Nginx and Jquery and delivered successfully on the front-end. The funny thing is that at the time a lot of commercially available "solutions" were a total joke and costed an arm and a leg.