What's wild is the importance and impact of the work/tool. And for google and Amazon, $50k-$100k/yr isn't even a single engineer salary to them ...
And they get the tool + community good will, all for a rounding error on any part of their budgets...
And they get the tool + community good will, all for a rounding error on any part of their budgets...
That is why I said easily 100~200k. It will be a rounding error for them.
It is actually crazy that Google is not already hiring the main dev to work on ffmpeg with all the use they give it on Youtube.
I also wonder if it is maybe used by Netflix also.
They do and it is.
https://netflixtechblog.com/the-making-of-ves-the-cosmos-mic...
https://netflixtechblog.com/for-your-eyes-only-improving-net...
So yeah it'd be nice if they put some real money (to ffmpeg - wouldn't be their coffee allowance to any of them) into it.
Almost everything that touches video at some point uses it.