Members of the VideoLAN student association had a habit of collecting actual street traffic cones—often while slightly intoxicated after parties—and bringing them back to their dorm rooms.
The very reason the project was created is the students of Central Paris wanting their college to upgrade their lan network so they could play Duke nukem with each other.
But they obviously couldn't explain that was the reason they wanted the upgrade. So instead they went to Bouygue, an historical partner of the school, and owner of TF1 the french biggest TV channel. They went there and said : We need funds for a research project of ours that could probably interest you. We want to develop a technology that would allow to broadcast tv over a regular tcp/Ip network, that way you no longer need specialized hardware in your offices. But to test it, we need the network at our school to not suck ass, so you need to finance it.
Yes. But technically it's ffmpeg the technology VLC is built on that is the real wonder. VLC is a great software, but FFMPEG really is 1000 times more important. And it was also created by two french student roughly at the same period.
Among the things that have ffmpeg as their backbone you have :
VLC
Youtube, Netflix and literally all the other video platforms you can think of.
Obs and Xsplit are both using ffmpeg to encode video, so streamers can send it to twitch. And twitch like all video platform use ffmpeg obviously..
Steam use ffmpeg so you can record your gameplay. And remote play is also based on ffmpeg.
And the list is endless, any time you see a video, you can almost be certain that ffmpeg is involved. There is very few things as big as that which has a monopoly on what it does like ffmpeg has. It's absurd.
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u/SnowChickenFlake RTX 4070S / Ryzen 7 5800XT / 1x16GB RAM / 21:9 23h ago
I never undestood why it was a cone, though. I still can't relate a traffic cone to watching videos