Bug#717072: AMV-support is missing

[Diego Biurrun]

  close 717072
  stop

On 2013-07-16 15:45, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
>
> Package: ffmpeg
> Version: 6:0.8.7-1
> Severity: important
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMV_video_format
>
> "The AMV code has been sent upstream to the main FFmpeg project[5] and
> the mainline version of FFmpeg now decodes and encodes AMV."

Maybe you should check the date on that one, it will give you something 
about 2007.

> Oh, really?:
>
> juhtolv at juhtolv | ti 16 heinä 2013 16:43:04 | 10019 | pts/23
> /home/juhtolv
> % ffmpeg -formats 2>&1 | grep -i amv
> [1]    3874 done       ffmpeg -formats 2>&1 |
>         3875 exit 1     grep $GREP_OPTIONS -i amv

AMV is not a format, it's a codec:

$ avconv -codecs 2> /dev/null | grep '[^_]amv[^_]'
D.VIL. amv                  AMV Video

The distinction between format (or container) and codec is often not 
made by those not working closely with multimedia, but it's important 
nonetheless.

Diego