The FFV1 Video Codec in Practice:
Opportunities and Challenges

For the online workshop “Digital Preservation: Digital Formats, Network and Data Curation” of the SAFE – The SustainAbility of italian Film hEritage project, organised by the Università degli Studi della Tuscia and Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, on 19 July 2024.

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Resources
• Further Reading and Watching
• Presenter

Abstract

A synthesis of presentations and articles about our good and bad experiences with FFV1 over the past 21 years. With the addition of a thought on the sustainability of losslessly compressed audio-visual files.

Resources

• The workshop flyer, PDF, 203 KB
• The presentation’s slides, PDF, 461 KB

Further Reading and Watching

• The Photon Path: from Sensel Values to Pixel Values at Transparency, Teaching & Trust (= No Time to Wait 6) from 26 to 28 October 2022 at Beeld en Geluid in Den Haag, Netherlands
• Sensor Design and Video Codec Design online at the Open Isn’t Enough conference (= No Time to Wait 5) from 8 to 10 December 2021
• Beyond RGB: Multispectral Imaging and FFV1 at Rough Consensus and Running Archives (= No Time to Wait 3) at the BFI Southbank in London, United Kingdom, on 25 and 26 October 2018
• On the Bright Side of Data Migrations. In IASA Journal, n. 49 (December 2018), IASA, p. 18–22
• Data Migration, Our Frenemy at Open Media, Open Formats, Open Archives (= No Time to Wait 2) at Österreichisches Filmmuseum in Vienna, Austria, on 9 and 10 November 2017 and at The Reel Thing XLII technical conference during the AMIA Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, United Stated of America, from 29 November to 2 December 2017
• Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving? In Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017), FIAF, Brussels, Belgium, p. 41–45
• Using Матрёшка and FFV1 for DPX Preservation at The Reel Thing XXXVIII technical conference from 18 to 20 August 2016 in Hollywood, California, United States of America

Presenter

Reto Kromer

2024-07-20