>It's partially untrue, yes. There was an actual vote from all the active developers to remove Michael from leadership, and that included the infrastructure developers.
Then why did so many remain with the ffmpeg project instead of going with libav ?
"I think the statistics indicate that the situation is much worse than
I expected. Please keep in mind that because of the daily merges, all
commits that are made in Libav also appear in FFmpeg, but not the
other way round. With a finger-in-the-wind estimate of subtracting the
numbers in the Libav table from the FFmpeg table, the distance between
Michael and the other FFmpeg developers because even more extreme."
Then why did so many remain with the ffmpeg project instead of going with libav ?