And then we also have the mplayer/mplayer2/mpv split, where the project forked not once, but twice. Between this and ffmpeg/libav, I honestly have to wonder if

And then we also have the mplayer/mplayer2/mpv split, where the project forked not once, but twice. Between this and ffmpeg/libav, I honestly have to wonder if there's something in the culture of media encoding/decoding technology that causes people to stop working together like this.