That's my point and also why I won't dig more. The author hasn't come to terms with his bad experience with ffmpeg, in LibAV or otherwise. Whatever the baggage is, it feels quite messy and heavy. It weighs down the article, with too much bitterness and resentment. That could work for self-therapy, less so for a credible account. As he confesses at the end:

> I wrote this post with an ulterior motive—I don’t want to feel shame when remembering that I took part in that project. So far though the more I hear about it the more disgusted I become.