Does FFMPEG has something like 'codec preservation policy' or something like that?
On Sun, 15 Oct, 2023, 9:47 pm Reindl Harald, <h.rei...@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? > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
