[FFmpeg-user] Technical specification for FFv1?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Peter B. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As some on this list might already know, we at the Austrian
> Mediathek (=national audio/video archive) are using FFv1 for
> long-term storage of our digitized video material.
> 
> Now, we've received questions about the standardization status of
> FFv1, and as far as I know: there is none.
> 
> The only specification of FFv1 I know about is:
> a) The code itself [1]
> b) A short overview-text [2] (still up-to-date?)
> 
> Since FFv1 has turned out to currently be *the* codec for video
> archiving (compared to JPEG2k and Uncompressed), it would be great
> if other archives would/could use it, too.
> 
> Long story short:
> Is there any proper documentation, which could be used to propose it
> for standardization? Or to improve faith that its bitstream can be
> opened in x years from now?

FFmpeg supports opening almost every format, form the most obscure
and dead formats from 20 and more years ago. To the most recent cutting
edge. I think any fear that we would drop support for FFv1 is quite
unfounded. But if we really lost all sanity, and our servers would be
all bombed by NATO. Still everyone who ever checked out a git version
does have not just one checkout, he has _every_ revission that has
been ever pushed into public by us. Thus he can always checkout and
compile that version with which his video was encoded and decode
it to YUV or RGB RAW. This is very hypothetical, we wont drop support.
That said, FFmpeg is open source and free software, theres no risk
of being locked into a format that cant be converted all of a sudden
everyone has the code to decode it ...

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