An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 11 March 2009 at 10:57 AM EDT. Page 1 of 3. 15 Comments. Earlier this week the FFmpeg project reached version 0.5, which was quite significant considering no new FFmpeg release was made available in years. This release contained a plethora of new encoders and decoders, support for VDPAU, a variety of bug-fixes, an