[FFmpeg-devel] Official status of FFv1?

Jason Garrett-Glaser darkshikari
Mon Mar 22 18:31:49 CET 2010


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

This is hilarious irony.  Lagarith is one of the worst-designed
lossless codecs in history, not merely with no spec, but it uses
FLOATING POINT MATH in its entropy decoder.  If you merely look at it
wrong it will corrupt your video.

If you're looking for a lossless encoder, also look at x264 lossless.
It tends to outperform FFV1 on cleaner sources (FFV1 will win on very
grainy/noisy sources).

Dark Shikari



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