Recommended Formats Statement

One of their recommended archival video formats is FFV1 in a Matroshka container. Following the endorsement, I used it in a GStreamer application that captured a time lapse in a scientific data acquisition context.

Overall I wasn't too impressed with my choice. Only VLC can play it back, which made it a headache for downstream consumers. It may be a GStreamer issue but I also struggled to record timestamps on the frames.

Were I to do it again, I'd maybe just capture the raw Bayer frames and metadata in something like an MCAP file as my source-of-truth, with an H.264 proxy video on the side that's easier for most people to play back.

It’s amazing how short the list of formats is, and given the obvious importance of electronics in context, that there are no formats related to such designs. E.g. Gerber files.

It's a shame JPEG XL isn't listed. I've converted all my family scanned photos to make it future proof; editing and saving an image multiple times doesn't degrade it as much as jpeg. Lossless with higher compression means lower file sizes.

See:

https://www.twicpics.com/blog/why-the-web-needs-jpeg-xl