{"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). Would things move faster if there were serious competitors to FFmpeg?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we use some more competition in the open source multimedia arena?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}