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FFmpeg logo An announcement on the FFmpeg.org project site notes: "The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the [maintenance] of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday." Exciting news and great continuing to see the significant investments across many open-source projects being made by the Sovereign Tech Fund. 21 Comments Tweet Related News NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.12 Brings Fixes, Chrome Compatibility Work Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. 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