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Michael Niedermayer (12024-06-17):
> also if you look at google trends, even today more people search for ffserver
> than txproto. In fact at every point in time more people searched for ffserver
> than txproto.
> 
> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=txproto,ffserver
> 
> So even though ffserver is dead, removed and unmaintained, it has more
> users
> 
> And this comes back to what i said many times. We should use the name
> FFmpeg, our domain and NOT push every bit of new inovation out into
> sub projects.
> 
> We should put a newly developed ffserver into the main ffmpeg git.
> We should put wasm build support into the main ffmpeg git.
> We should turn ffplay into a fully competetive player.
> ...

Hear! Hear! 

I would add, as general guiding principles:

We should provide both low- and high-level APIs. Ideally, the fftools
should be just user interface around the high-level APIs provided by the
libraries.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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