[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 5 year plan & Inovation

[Aidan]

The best option is to figure stuff out.

I don't see positive stuff in this mailing list - I lurk a lot in these
emails.

I see what you mean. I somewhat disagree/agree. New codecs or new formats
is innovative to a certain extent.

There is no creativity or motivation here to improve the functionality of
FFmpeg. Just arguing!

Having a Native VVC decoder is great. Most of us will be using it after a
few years once the codec becomes used.

I use FFmpeg to download HLS streams from the internet or convert files
like probably most people do. FFmpeg is the ultimate way of doing this
because there is no better option.

But there are issues:
1. "#ext-x-discontinuity" exists. Makes FFmpeg completely unable to
function with HLS depending on the circumstance.
2. TTML is used a lot on the internet as subtitles. FFmpeg doesn't have a
decoder at all. TTML is rarely supported other than browsers. There is no
way to convert and preserve formatting.
3. There is no encoder for cea-608 subtitles. Tons of services support
decoding but there's no way to encode it.
4. Services selling HLS encoder services. FFmpeg can generate an HLS
playlist. However, it's an important part: the web server.

I submitted a patch for a TTML decoder because I thought it would be great.
It was completely ignored.
If my patch was seriously bad, then fine. But seriously *no one cared*.

Y'all can disagree with me. You are slowly digging a pit.

Kind regards,
Aidan / TheDaChicken