[FFmpeg-devel] Official status of FFv1?

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 03/22/2010 10:31 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> - 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).

Do you have samples so I could verify this ?

In all the tests I made, FFV1 outperformed x264 lossless, and was much 
faster.

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