[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] y41penc: Mark as experimental.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:31:09PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 1/2/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > The Y41P encoder together with the avi muxer does not generate
> > playable files, thus it is better to mark it as experimental so
> > users do not generate unplayable files by mistake.
> 
> There is at least one win32 application which claims to support
> decoding/encoding Y41P so better use them as reference and not old
> binary codec from mplayer.

Correct files will be played by all players
And we should not generate incorrect files, we do a huge disservice to
our users if we do that without warning them.

A user might encode a large collection of files and burn them on cdrs
and he might notice they play correctly with that one win32 application

but then a month later the user might try playing them with another app
that uses the binary codec thats also used by mplayer. And suddenly
he might have wasted quite a bit of time and also money for cdrs.

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