alt Hacker News > because they use FFmpeg in a bunch of commercial products like Youtube and Chrome
I'm not sure why this is an unpopular idea, but contribute back to your upstream dependencies. If they're a dependency, they're part of *your code*.
> Not to mention they just have a vested interest in getting the problem solved. Even if we don't talk about money.
Correct me if im wrong, but based on the report this looks like something that would affect regular users of ffmpeg but not google's use.