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FFV1 (short for FF Video 1) is a lossless intra-frame video coding format. FFV1 is particularly popular for its performance regarding speed and size, compared to other lossless preservation codecs, such as Motion JPEG 2000.

The encoder and decoder have been part of the free, open-source library libavcodec in the FFmpeg project since June 2003. FFV1 is also included in ffdshow and LAV Filters, which makes the video codec available to Microsoft Windows applications that support system-wide codecs over Video for Windows (VfW) or DirectShow.

FFV1 has been standardized at the IETF under RFC 9043. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) lists FFV1 under the codec-family index "31" in their combined list of video codec references.

For long-term preservation of digital video sustainable container formats as well as audio/video codecs are necessary. There is no consensus as of 2013[needs update] among the archival community as to which file format or codecs should be used for preservation purposes for digital video. The previously proclaimed encodings were Motion JPEG 2000 and uncompressed video.

FFV1 proved to be a viable archival encoding and the U.S. Library of Congress began regarding it as a suitable option for preservation encoding in 2014. Compared to lossless JPEG 2000, FFV1 features comparable compression ratios and lower computing requirements. As of 2014,[needs update] it is being used by archives, particularly where the collections do not feature extensive broadcast materials and instead consist of oral history and the like.

Since around 2015, the European PREFORMA Project started working on the standardisation of FFV1 through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It was standardised in August 2021 as RFC 9043. The PERFORMA Project also implemented a conformance checker for FFV1 in the Matroska container. Details of FFV1's standardization plan have been prepared by MediaArea (authors of MediaInfo) as part of their conformance checking tool Media CONCH.

It is also listed as a format option for long-term preservation of moving images on sites of the Library of Congress and the State Records Authority of New South Wales. The Society of American Archivists published a paper in August 2014, suggesting only FFV1 as preservation codec for video.

The Library of Congress identified AVI and Matroska as common container formats for FFV1.

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