[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/matroska: Support codec id V_FFV1 for FFV1.

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:00:27 +0100
Jerome Martinez <jerome at mediaarea.net> wrote:

> Le 01/03/2017 à 09:43, Carl Eugen Hoyos a écrit :
> > 2017-03-01 4:40 GMT+01:00 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:  
> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 08:45:44PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:  
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> Attached patch fixes ticket #6206 here.
> >>>
> >>> Please comment, Carl Eugen  
> >> previous ffmpeg versions dont play these files  
> > What do you suggest?  
> 
> My suggestion:
> - support by the demuxer
> - for the muxer, support only if a specific explicit option is set, 
> default stays AVI compatibility layer (no break in playback by old players).

Sounds like a good idea.

> then in 12 (or 24, or 36 months), the time that new FFmpeg versions 
> propagate everywhere (we also open tickets for other demuxers in order 
> to get the support of such files), the default is changed to V_FFV1.

There are other demuxers than the FFmpeg one. Actually I suspect most
trouble will be with ancient mkvmerge versions floating around and that
everyone seems to want to use.

> Sorry I don't know enough FFmpeg for doing the corresponding patch myself.
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