FFmpeg is way cooler than it sounds.

Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...

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Open source software developers are building a native VP8 video codec implementation for the FFmpeg project. Their goal: a decoder with better performance than Google's own.