[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 6/6] avcodec: add vvdec H.266/VVC decoder

[Lynne]

Dec 21, 2020, 07:07 by nuomi2021 at gmail.com:

> you can download test clips here:
> https://www.itu.int/wftp3/av-arch/jvet-site/bitstream_exchange/VVC/under_test/VTM-11.0/
>

Honestly, I'm not sure about this patch. Its an external library decoder, which
doesn't help us very much, and its for a codec competing with another codec
(AV1) for which we don't really have a native decoder for yet. Not to mention
some of us were involved with the effort to standardize and/or write a decoder
for AV1, so there's also a personal element to not wanting VVC to have any
success.

So I'm kind of against this particular patch as-is. I'd be okay with it being a native
decoder built into our codebase. But as-is, this serves nothing to help the
project, but only corporations who invested into the codec and want to see
some return on their investment from enforcing licensing on our users.
And no one is even really using this codec at the moment.