Also, according to a ffmpeg contributor [1] (who joined after the schism) they just refused to merge anything by ffmpeg, often doing identical functionality fro

Also, according to a ffmpeg contributor [1] (who joined after the schism) they just refused to merge anything by ffmpeg, often doing identical functionality from scratch (because users wanted it after seeing it in ffmpeg). Meanwhile ffmpeg merged basically everything from libav. Furthermore ffmpeg made an effort to provide compatibility, even for stuff where libav intentionally broke compatibility. So basically ffmpeg benefitted from all the work put into libav but not the other way around. Seems to me that they brought this upon themselves. [1]: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html