The entire digital world stands on the shoulders of a single C library that some guy wrote in his basement in 1998. Every streaming service, every video call, every cat video – all powered by FFmpeg, a tool held together with duct tape and caffeine. The best part? Most companies making millions from video content have no idea their empire rests on this Jenga tower of open-source code. If the three developers who actually understand the codebase ever decided to take a vacation simultaneously, Netflix would just be a spinning loading icon.
The Digital World Balances On FFmpeg
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