What blows my mind is that there's a Rust encoder, but no Rust decoder. There are many more orders of magnitude of people who will use a decoder than an encoder. One would think that the safe decoder would have come first.
Decoders are notoriously harder to support than encoders due to the various internal formats and encoding/decoding options. Until it supports all the different formats (a lot of effort), it will only be able to play back a few videos.
By focusing on an encoder (at least initially) you can just support a subset of features that work well for you. Then focus on making a decoder that can at least play back videos from your encoder.
More people will find it useful to have an encoder that works all the time, rather than a decoder that only works on a subset of videos.
