On 2/29/24 20:13, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> Every codec we develop is experimental and used by nobody
> then by nobody outside ffmpeg
> and if we dont allow this then we can never create a new codec.
> 
> FFv1 would not exist if we could not have added it at ta time
> noone used it. FFv1 would not have become widely used if it was in
> someones personal repository and main FFmpeg did not support it
> 
> thx
> 


This is true, but also the code hasn't been touched in more than ten 
years, which makes it a bit different than, say, ffv1 which was actively 
developed for a while and still is.

- Leo Izen (Traneptora)