[FFmpeg-devel] [libav-devel] Remote participation options for IETF session on MKV/FFV1 at July 22 @ 9 CEST

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Kostya Shishkov <kostya.shishkov at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:52:55AM -0400, Dave Rice wrote:
> > Hi all,
> [...]
> > The FFV1 specification work may also be reviewed at github [5] with
> recent rendering in HTML [6] and PDF [7] available. To participate in the
> current standardization efforts of FFV1 please visit the ffmpeg-devel
> mailing list [8] or the #ffmpeg-devel [8] IRC channel on freenode.
>
> I'd suggest that any standardisation includes not only "specification" but
> also an independent implementation - it helps to figure out what's wrong
> with
> the specification and maybe gives a small standalone library instead of
> something spread out on half a dozen files in a large software project.


+1. I can't stress how important this is. In addition, the spec should be
the master, not any one implementation (because then the bugs in that one
implementation will "be" the spec, regardless of what the bug is).

Thank you Kostya.

Ronald