{"id":2479,"date":"2010-05-18T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:54:49","slug":"competition-in-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/competition-in-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition In Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/events\/collaboration-summit\">Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit<\/a>, I was chatting with someone heavily involved in a major open source SQL database program. I asked how he feels about the interminable hype surrounding so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NoSQL\">NoSQL databases<\/a>. Among other sentiments, he mentioned that he felt positive regarding the fact that there is competition in the open source database arena once more which is driving much innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have to frame everything through my multimedia lense and I pondered the notion of competition in open source multimedia development. Some of my fondest memories of open source development come from 2002-2003 when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xine-project.org\/\">xine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mplayerhq.hu\/\">MPlayer<\/a> teams were engaged in open war, trying to create the best open source multimedia player. The competition was a major factor.<\/p>\n<p>These days, the deepest multimedia development occurs on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> project. FFmpeg is pretty much a category-killer. There&#8217;s nothing else like it in the open source or proprietary worlds (and if you think you know of a competitor, it&#8217;s probably using FFmpeg as its backend). 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