A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is @isostandards.
ISO standards are behind an expensive paywall, making them impossible to access for volunteer developers in FFmpeg, or anyone wanting to learn about multimedia technology
In many countries your taxes pay for this monopoly on standards. Write to your governments and ask that ISO standards are free like web standards.
@isostandards How do you expect the next generation of engineers to learn when each document you produce is $100+ each?
Apr 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.
Hi @elonmusk, we hear you want hardcore video engineering at Twitter 2.0. At FFmpeg we've been doing hardcore video programming for decades (high performance hand written assembly etc.) Get in touch if you want to talk!
@elonmusk Errr...this tweet blew up (thanks @ID_AA_Carmack!).
FFmpeg and affiliated projects like @videolan are open source projects with many technical challenges at the cutting edge of video.
To anyone interested, check out the code: source.ffmpeg.org (in C of course)
