[FFmpeg-devel] Official status of FFv1?

[Peter B.]

Hello,

After evaluating several possible formats for a long-term video archive,
I am very impressed by FFv1 and it might be a very interesting codec
candidate, next to Huffyuv.


Sorry for bugging you, but I'm writing to this list in order to get
information about the current state of FFv1, because I couldn't find
proper information about the FFv1's current:

- reliability
- upwards-compatibility
- known issues



== What I've found so far is:

- A commit-message from April 14th, 2006 [1] says:
[quote] ffv1 and ffvhuff havnt changed since a long time and noone
proposed any changes within 1 month after my warning so they are
officially no longer experimental and we will gurantee decodeability of
files encoded with the currenzt ffv1/ffvhuff in the future
[/quote]

- But: The code itself still contains the line "(an experimental
lossless codec)"

- The website of Lagarith [2] still claims that "[...] FFV1 in fact warn
against using them to archive video"



So, from my personal experience as developer, I think you (=the ffmpeg
developers) are the only ones who could seriously answer the question:

"Do you think that FFv1 can be used as video codec for an official
long-term video archive?"



Thank you very much in advance,
Peter B.


References:
[1]
http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commit;h=c8404afb3f061544e5c981fc2a8bff77fee6c1ed
[2] http://lags.leetcode.net/reasons.html