What's does "ffmpeg" really stand for?

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I know this is a shitpost community, but you can always learn something new everyday

edit: corrected

Really? I assumed FF was 'fast fourier'.

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I remember ffdecsa being a thing in the satellite descrambling community before seeing ffmpeg and in that case it was "fucking fast" de(scrambling of)csa. I always assumed the ff in ffmpeg meant the same thing.

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