[FFmpeg-devel] STF RaptorQ

[Lynne]

On 23/05/2025 08:42, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to put on the record that adding RaptorQ to FFmpeg isn't
> maintenance of FFmpeg.

It isn't -- it's research.
> It's adding an obscure FEC protocol to FFmpeg, which is not going to be
> implemented well without an event loop anyway.

You're mixing up FEC implementation details that don't matter for a library.
It works much like a decoder - you put N blocks of Y bytes data in, and 
you get X blocks of Z byes out.
> I do not think it's a suitable STF project.
STF is not maintenance-only from what I understand, but also for 
innovation, in this case, research.

I have no strong opinions on including this into STF. It's just work I'm 
interested in doing, which is currently obscure, but that's because it's 
still young and recently standardized. It will likely be used in future 
multimedia work, or so I'd like to think.

I'd like to ask for you to judge this without prejudice, however. When 
we spoke on IRC, you had (and still have, in the case of the event loop 
point), inaccurate understanding of the algorithm, and resorted to 
asking very technical questions about a recent algorithm to AI chatbots.
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