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ffmpeg only has a working webm decoder. xvp8 (the x264-based encoder) hasn't been touched for a few months and is basically vaporware.

• cookiecaper 16y ago
  In #ffmpeg on freenode: (09:50:48 PM) sjuxax: Guy on HN said this: "ffmpeg only has a working webm decoder. xvp8 (the x264-based encoder) hasn't been touched for a few months and is basically vaporware" (09:50:50 PM) sjuxax: true? ... (09:52:34 PM) Dark_Shikari: not quite true (09:52:42 PM) Dark_Shikari: close, but not quite. (09:52:58 PM) Dark_Shikari: 1) the github tree hasn't been updated (09:53:05 PM) Dark_Shikari: there is more stuff that isn't in the tree yet (09:53:13 PM) Dark_Shikari: 2) Ronald is dealing with his first baby boy, give him some slack (09:53:20 PM) Dark_Shikari: 3) Google just hired him full-time for a year to work solely on xvp8 and later on... (10:12:27 PM) Dark_Shikari: tl;dr: it's kinda vaporware, there's a bit of work done, but it will stop being vaporware in march when Ronald goes to work for Google.
  • daxelrod 16y ago
    Assuming you're sjuxax, thank you for the research! I think a lot of us sometimes forget how simple it is to go to the primary sources in cases like this.
  • JonnieCache 16y ago
    As much as google can seem pretty sinister these days, it's reassuring that their strategy for implementing a video decoder is "hire the dev on the leading open source project for a year."