On 21/07/15 19:09, Dave Rice wrote:
> Hi Kostya,
> 
>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Kostya Shishkov
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:52:55AM -0400, Dave Rice wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>> [...]
>>> The FFV1 specification work may also be reviewed at github [5]
>>> with recent rendering in HTML [6] and PDF [7] available. To
>>> participate in the current standardization efforts of FFV1 please
>>> visit the ffmpeg-devel mailing list [8] or the #ffmpeg-devel [8]
>>> IRC channel on freenode.
>> 
>> I'd suggest that any standardisation includes not only
>> "specification" but also an independent implementation - it helps
>> to figure out what's wrong with the specification and maybe gives a
>> small standalone library instead of something spread out on half a
>> dozen files in a large software project.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Possibly the recent work to standardize
> the Opus codec may provide a good model for the creation of a small,
> standalone reference implementation such as
> https://www.opus-codec.org/downloads/
> <https://www.opus-codec.org/downloads/>. Actually it looks as if an
> entire standalone reference implementation is embedded into Opus' RFC
> 6716, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#appendix-A
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#appendix-A>.
> 

The correct way to get something solid is to have a specification
document, at least two independent implementations and a full-coverage
testsuite that ensures that is possible to validate additional
implementations with ease.

I can't be in Prague, but I'm looking forward to see the outcome of the
discussion.

lu
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