Video codecs are a nightmare for anybody who dabbles in video editing. I often use ffmpeg to setup live video streams as part of my job, I consider myself a reasonably advanced user, yet I dread having to figure out why this-or-that doesn't work that should work, or works on one platform but isn't supported on another...

I usually stick to tried-and-true combinations of codecs / containers / delivery schemes I have tried and validated over the years, and whenever I have to depart from them in any way, the gremlins come back without fail.

You'd think it would be as easy as just shipping a decoding library with the game distribution. 🫤