FFmpeg Adding More Adobe Flash in 2023
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.
Not The Onion. Enhanced Flash Video.
No this is not The Onion, no April Fool’s Day is not here early.
FFmpeg states that they have “enhanced” the Flash video container to store HEVC, AV1, and VP9, according to the git log.
I’m wondering what kind of a monster would put these codecs into a Flash video container considering that Adobe last updated the container in 2008 and it was meant to be used with the Flash Player, which hasn’t worked in any Web browser for years, and we have so many better container formats.
FFmpeg is some weird shit. No wonder it has so many emergency fixes. It’s the OpenSSL of media codecs.
This really does seem to me to be akin to OpenSSL supporting “Big Endian x86 on Windows 3.1″.
You never know when someone will need to do this and pull out Borland’s Turbo C to compile it.
Better support it just to cover all eventualities. █