[FFmpeg-devel] Twitter/X spat on Youtube

[FFmpeg-devel] Twitter/X spat on Youtube

[Gyan Doshi via ffmpeg-devel]

Overnight, a SPI contributor to FFmpeg has posted on YT a rant about a 
'spat' with the FFmpeg twitter account.

Video is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VkcAvqV24c

In 11 hours since posting, it has clocked up tens of thousands views and 
hundreds of comments.

Our outreach channels should not be confrontational or combative, 
irrespective of the merits. Even if the other party gets rude, a civil 
tone can be maintained. Who runs the twitter account and who wrote the 
posts featured in the video?

Regards,
Gyan
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Twitter/X spat on Youtube

[Christopher Snowhill via ffmpeg-devel]

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On Sun 26 Oct 2025 12:21:35 PM , Gyan Doshi via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Overnight, a SPI contributor to FFmpeg has posted on YT a rant about a 
> 'spat' with the FFmpeg twitter account.
> 
> Video is at
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VkcAvqV24c
> 
> In 11 hours since posting, it has clocked up tens of thousands views and 
> hundreds of comments.
> 
> Our outreach channels should not be confrontational or combative, 
> irrespective of the merits. Even if the other party gets rude, a civil 
> tone can be maintained. Who runs the twitter account and who wrote the 
> posts featured in the video?

Does FFmpeg even have a Twitter presence? Is it even wise for anyone to
actually bother interacting with that site these days?

> 
> Regards,
> Gyan
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Twitter/X spat on Youtube

[Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel]

Hi,

Speaking as a member of the CC,

Le sunnuntai 26. lokakuuta 2025, 8.51.35 Itä-Euroopan normaaliaika Gyan Doshi 
via ffmpeg-devel a écrit :
> Our outreach channels should not be confrontational or combative,
> irrespective of the merits. Even if the other party gets rude, a civil
> tone can be maintained. Who runs the twitter account and who wrote the
> posts featured in the video?

There are critics that I would level about our media team:
- misleading statements (1) that potentially leads to discredit,
- personal opinions that look like they represent that of the FFmeg community, 
even though they are actually points of contention (2).
And I understand that their salty tone is not to everyone's taste. But it does 
not seem to out of place on X, as opposed to LinkedIn.

The CC already received a complaint about that specific git-log X post, and 
frankly, I fail to see a problem with it. Mr Aaltonen denigrated FFmpeg and 
OSS multimedia in general, and he is the one that we should be pissed at.

FFmpeg merely stated the factual truth that he did not contribute anything. I 
think that the media team is well within its role to highlight the problem of 
OSS sustainability by calling out hypocritical statements.

Please ignore the drama-tuber or better yet, just downvote the video. There is 
no shortage of bruised egos, know-it-all's and bottom-feeding click-baiters on 
YouTube.


(1) Dubious performance claims extracted from a presentation at last year's 
VDD.
(2) Dissing programming languages other than C and assembler. (And FWIW, Rust 
integration with assembler is way better than C's at this point.)

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Hagalund ny stad, f.d. Finska republik Nylands



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