When a press release came across the Faultline news desk a fortnight ago declaring that some little-known company had won a landmark deal as the exclusive video software packager supplier for the world’s largest SVoD platform, sparks of ‘too-good-to-be-true’ fired off in all directions. The celebrations of a Netflix triumph come from Motion Spell, a Paris-based firm which is not a start-up at all, as it might seem, but was actually founded 10 years ago as the IP licensing body behind the open source multimedia framework GPAC (Graphics Project on Advanced Content). Unlike other four-letter acronyms in the video industry, GPAC is not exactly ubiquitous, yet 20 years of open source development are only now beginning to change that perception…