FFmpeg’s 20‑Year Legacy: Powering Video Players and the ‘Shame Pillar’
Celebrating two decades of the open‑source FFmpeg project, this article explains how its multimedia decoding libraries underpin popular video players and major platforms, recounts the 2011 split that birthed Libav, discusses licensing obligations under LGPL/GPL, and reveals the infamous “shame pillar” list of software that ignored those rules.
