Talk:FFV1

This is just a note by a random visitor: it would be greatif the author of this article could just add a single line that shows how to actually encode videos to this codec. This is all I was looking for, google pointed me here, but I was frustrated by not finding this obviously needed information. Please also add for all the other codecs you have on wikipedia a simple usage example line based on best practices, thanks. That would be very useful.

FFV1 or FFv1?
The codec in question is referred to as FFV1 in some places of the article, in others as FFv1. The official specification uses the spelling FFV1. Is there any distinction between FFV1 and FFv1? Are both variants in common usage? Should one be preferred over the other? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conquerist (talk • contribs) 13:16, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The inventor / developer calls it "FFV1": http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/ffv1.c --Regression Tester (talk) 21:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll go ahead and change occurrences of FFv1 to FFV1, for the sake of consistency.Conquerist (talk) 22:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Category
Recently, the user "Waldir" changed the category assignment of this article to "Free Video Codecs". This is perfectly true, but now FFV1 does not show up on the category page "Video codecs" anymore. I think it might be good to re-assign the FFV1 article to the category "Video Codecs" again. If there are no objections, I will do so. The rooker (talk) 21:13, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, the same is true for all other articles in Category:Free video codecs. I don't think it's a good idea to categorize everything under both specific categories and their parent categories. That way every BLP would have to be categorized under "human", "living being", etc. (an extreme example, but shows where this reasoning takes us if we run with it). The category tree exists for a reason, and it should be used as such, imo. --Waldir talk 02:12, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Color Subsampling required?
I converted some example videos and it seems that FFV1 always uses color subsampling so the encoding is not really lossless if the source is a sequence full RGB images. --RokerHRO (talk) 13:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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Misleading use of the terms "codec" and "format"
I believe a large section of this page is misleading; it confuses video formats with codecs. As noted on Wikipedia's own page on them, a codec is a piece of software capable of encoding and/or decoding video (or audio) data to or from a specific format. I'm certain that FFV1 is a video format, not a codec; it's codec is a part of libavcodec. This issue is especially confusing because the specification for the format describes it as a codec. This page should either be edited to reflect the fact that FFV1 is a format, not a codec (as the table of contents for the page already indicates), or should have a section added to indicate the confusion.

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VLC Player
As of June, 2018, I believe VLC Player will play back ffv1 files. I'm not going to change the article until this has been double checked. Chris319 (talk) 00:55, 25 June 2018 (UTC)