libav is a part of FFmpeg, and the heart of it. But FFmpeg isn't just a skeleton. Most decoders + protocols + demuxers / muxsers + filters + scaler + resampler are native components.
The most well-known 3rd party libs provide a few (albeit commonly used) video encoders. Of course, having interfaces for these external libs is what allows media operations to be consolidated into a single process workflow. As standalone tools, x264/x265 would be more cumbersome to integrate into a pipeline.
API/ABI is meant to be preserved within a major version, but not across. The deprecation period is typically two years, but deletion is usually much later.
Do you have examples to the contrary from the past few years?
For a few years, the default aac coder has been fast. But the twoloop coder is better but slower, and was made default in May 2021. Add `-aac_coder twoloop` (in older builds) and recheck.
Don't think that's the main reason. Hollywood has no compunction or lack of skill to embellish or dramatize a mundane life if they need to.
I suspect Bach's place at the top is received rather than recognized, which is not to say he doesn't deserve it. His skill lays in counterpoint and other facets of harmony. His music has structural elegance and ornamental beauty, not the full orchestral rabble rousing of Beethoven or delicate pianism of Chopin. Not exactly directly translatable to a poster or trailer.
The intro of the actual paper* is ambivalent, rather than what the post title asserts.
"We critically examine relevant findings and argue that there is no clear evidence for detrimental lasting effects of digital technology on cognitive abilities."
It hasn't, since ffmpeg's inception. It's very unlikely - it would require that ffmpeg verify codec compatibility with the output muxer. Not all muxers have registered a codec tags list , so that can't happen.
The primary endpoint is symptomatic infection, not any infection per se. And it's a bit of a kludge, as all the Phase III protocols I've read define symptomatic infection as X no. of symptoms for Y+ no. of days i.e. there are people with fewer symptoms who aren't counted (or even tested to check for infection).
The efficacy is the 1-relative risk of the primary endpoint.
The most well-known 3rd party libs provide a few (albeit commonly used) video encoders. Of course, having interfaces for these external libs is what allows media operations to be consolidated into a single process workflow. As standalone tools, x264/x265 would be more cumbersome to integrate into a pipeline.