Openh264 ((link)): After Everything

After everything — the codec outlives the code, the standard outlives the standard-bearers, and the silence after a video ends is just silence again.

They will be right. And they will never know the wars that were fought in IETF meeting rooms, the drafts, the objections, the last-minute concessions, just to make that wget work at all. after everything openh264

No compression. No negotiation. No profile or level. After everything — the codec outlives the code,

No one will remember why it was needed. No ticket, no Slack thread, no RFC. Just a checksum and a vague memory: "We had to ship something that played video on those old Chinese phones." the standard outlives the standard-bearers

Just the frame we finally stopped trying to send.