[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] y41penc: Mark as experimental.

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/2/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:31:09PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 1/2/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > The Y41P encoder together with the avi muxer does not generate
>> > playable files, thus it is better to mark it as experimental so
>> > users do not generate unplayable files by mistake.
>>
>> There is at least one win32 application which claims to support
>> decoding/encoding Y41P so better use them as reference and not old
>> binary codec from mplayer.
>
> Correct files will be played by all players
> And we should not generate incorrect files, we do a huge disservice to
> our users if we do that without warning them.
>
> A user might encode a large collection of files and burn them on cdrs
> and he might notice they play correctly with that one win32 application
>
> but then a month later the user might try playing them with another app
> that uses the binary codec thats also used by mplayer. And suddenly
> he might have wasted quite a bit of time and also money for cdrs.
>

Considering that Y41P is pixel format I do not understand
why we should support broken players.

That codec in mplayer clearly should not be used for decoding Y41P
(or undiscovered Y41T).