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What blows my mind is that there's a Rust encoder, but no Rust decoder. There are many more orders of magnitude of people who will use a decoder than an encoder
by zamalek 6y ago
What blows my mind is that there's a Rust encoder, but no Rust decoder. There are many more orders of magnitude of people who will use a decoder than an encoder. One would think that the safe decoder would have come first.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoMost people will use the decoder in their browser, while the encoding environment will be much more diverse.
- elementalest 6y agoDecoders are notoriously harder to support than encoders due to the various internal formats and encoding/decoding options. Until it supports all the different formats (a lot of effort), it will only be able to play back a few videos. By focusing on an encoder (at least initially) you can just support a subset of features that work well for you. Then focus on making a decoder that can at least play back videos from your encoder. More people will find it useful to have an encoder that works all the time, rather than a decoder that only works on a subset of videos.