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note that this seems to be a bug in what i expect (feel free to correct me) is a code path for a little-used codec

maybe we'll just see them remove support for these long-tail formats the way linux has been removing drivers for similar reasons https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver

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it's widely used but in "industry" applications. so ffmpeg is probably being used in a lot of offices (studios) and maybe even being included in end user software.

Understatement of the year. Almost everything that processes video uses ffmpeg.

> Understatement of the year.

Normally yes. For VPK, actually, no.

The file format that we're describing was part of a proprietary embedded SDK for the PS2. The majority of professional integrations would be using the Sony SDK.

Today, a lot of tooling uses FFMPEG for accessibility of those formats. But I wouldn't say it's the majority.

Hence why I said "(studios)" after offices, and "probably" and not "majorly":

> probably being used in a lot of offices (studios)

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