GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 637080
Default video/audio codecs are the ones at the top of the list
Last modified: 2013-09-30 19:23:16 UTC
After selecting a container, the video codec (and probably audio codec too) that gets selected is simply the one that happens to be at the top of the list (most of the time, Dirac), not the most common/useful one.
The commit below changes the behaviour of the dialog: the selected a/v codec is the last codec which was specifically selected by the user. commit eb564e3b6e63119d722f55e4bc8771dd9545c2b2 Author: Alex Băluț <alexandru.balut@gmail.com> Date: Sat May 7 14:14:23 2011 +0200 Fixed EncodingDialog to display the saved audio and video encoders when the dialog is opened. Fixes bug 587095.
Not really fixed. Let's say you start a blank project and set the container to Ogg, Dirac will be the default video codec because it's at the top of the list. Yet for most users, it does not make sense to use Dirac instead of, say, Theora. Now, the question is, however, whether 1) we can do something about this 2) if the point is moot now that we have profiles/presets?
The fact that we use codecs' "ranks" to weed out the bad ones makes this pretty much a non-issue nowadays...