With a trend towards open source software (see separate story on 2025 trends), it was apt that GPAC, the open source packaging framework favored by Netflix, has been deployed by GStreamer, an open source multimedia framework for constructing graphs of media-handling components. This is especially niche, and particularly nerdy. Yet it is well within our remit, and is evidence that while the video technology industry is consolidating, open source communities are rallying. “GPAC is to packaging what FFmpeg is to encoding,” is one way we have previously heard GPAC described. Motion Spell, the Paris-based IP licensing body which operates GPAC (Graphics Project on Advanced Content), knows that the framework is a commodity, as a necessity of open source. GStreamer is…