On 18 November 2011 02:18, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:16 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Forgot to add +1 to "don't support too much formats". The best approach is
>> to create a list that starts with one supported - and preferably only one =)
>> - supported format, and add others with explanation why they are added, i.e.
>> what shortcomings of original format these additional formats are supposed
>> to close.
>> This way people will also get a guidance for choosing the most
>> appropriate format for their goal (or just get some reasons to choose the
>> preferred one).
>
> Unfortunately, in the world of video there is no
> one-format-to-rule-them-all. The three possible contenders for that title
> are probably H.264, Theora and WebM, but each comes with significant
> drawbacks (licensing on non-Apple platforms, poor quality, and poor encoding
> speed, respectively).
> If cutting down the number of formats is a popular idea, then I would
> suggest making those 3 the base set of formats, and get someone with
> extensive video experience to benchmark quality/size/speed of all 3 and
> provide a discussion of their relative merits.
I don't believe the discussion is about removing support for codecs
(they're all built into ffmpeg and avbin is just a thin, sane ABI
around ffmpeg). The discussion is about which codecs should be present
in the avbin test suite.
An avbin that restricts itself to supporting WebM (or even one that
supports WebM and h.264 and Theora) is useless.
Richard
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