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[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg naming and logo

Fabrice Bellard fabrice at bellard.org
Sat Feb 18 19:38:28 CET 2006 

Christian Iversen wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2006 16:10, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:55:50 +0100
>>
>>Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>what about creating a new logo instead the old one? Also anyone thought
>>>about making the FFmpeg name an acronym? It could stand for "Fast and
>>>Free MultiPurpose Encoding/Decoding Gadget" or anything else :)
>>
>>What about "Fast and Furious Multimedia Processing EnGine" then ?
>>(i agree it seems to be a Vin Diesel sponsored soft :)
>>
>>of your Fast & Free ? or Fast Fourier ?
> 
> 
> Fast & Fourious? ;-)

Just for the record, the original meaning of "FF" in FFmpeg is "Fast 
Forward"...

Fabrice.

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