It should work, but it doesn’t. 
If they removed it, why is it still in the software as an option for exporting then? That seems a bit…off. Granted, if they were in a real pinch timewise I could see it as a quick fix to be adressed later, but still a very strange decision.
Absolutely fine if they don’t want to have 265 as an option. But presenting the option to me, sets an expectation. Granted, it would feel a bit off to see premium prices and not have the most common file formats in there, but that would at least be more palpatable.
That is really interesting though, and more than a bit strange. I mean, sure there will be growing pains with the kind of success that they are having with it, I get that. But you’d think that licensing would be one of the first things to look at when you get to a stage where you have some financial wiggle room.
But yeah, I’m with you on 100% on that. It should be a given that this sort of product should have it’s own dedicated code base for encoding. I mean, it’s not like it’s hard to do either, hell even I’ve done that. The only time consuming part in terms of coding it is to look up what part of the stream you need to go to to read which data for the various file formats. The rest is easy.
I’d be lying if I said that this level of coding doesn’t scare me. Quality of the release aside, video formats are a genuine vulnerability, and with these sort of mistakes I don’t feel confident enough to say that they havn’t got their own security issues or haven\t gotten a library from an old blog with unmaintaned code and a soon to lapse domain name, or something similar.
It very much feels like the core idea is to take a free AI & FFmpeg and package it as a new product. I’m sure they haven’t just done that, but that is what it feels like.
Why not a raw format? Or webm if they want a free one?
In this case I don’t get why they don’t go with older more stable releases with wider support. Or at least have the good old option of an experimental, new fantastic features version and a stable release one.
That would make so much more sense.
At the end of the day, I could not care less about using the latest graphics card fancy shamncery, if it means I can’t run it on any fairly new machine. When given the option it’s not like people will see broken software, and go “oh - I can fix that, all I need is to go buy brand new $2000 hardware, and that will fix this buggy program!” over simply downloading something that works.
