[FFmpeg-user] A question about video codecs.

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 6:44 PM Classic SSG Enjoyer <
adityadandavate04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does FFMPEG has something like 'codec preservation policy' or something
> like that?
>

Nope. Policy is to remove all obsolete old codecs nobody ever use.


>
> On Sun, 15 Oct, 2023, 9:47 pm Reindl Harald, <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Am 15.10.23 um 18:07 schrieb Classic SSG Enjoyer:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am a user of FFMPEG. Its a great software. It gets 10/10 from me!
> > >
> > > Sir, as you know that libx264 is widely used and other video codecs
> like
> > > mpeg2video, theora etc, are not much used today.
> > >
> > > So, as time will go on, its likely that video codecs like VP9, HEVC,
> AV1,
> > > VVC will be the video codecs of the future as the world is transferring
> > > from resolutions like 720p and 1080p to 4K, 8K UHD resolutions and
> these
> > > codecs provide significant bitrate savings over AVC.
> > >
> > > But, when HEVC, VP9, etc codecs rule the world in future years e.g 10
> > > years, then will the support of old video codecs at like libx264 be
> > removed
> > > or will FFMPEG keep supporting the video codecs at that time?
> >
> > why should it?
> >
> > you can still encode/decode old AVI stuff from the 1990's and H264 will
> > be for a very long time preferable - on a server where customers are
> > uploading videos which needs to be converted to something <video>
> > supports you need much more cpu power using x265 versus x264 and it
> > takes ages
> >
> > ffmpeg don't implemnt all stuff itself and libraries like libx264 won't
> > go away - why and how should they?
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