For the record, those last two links are related to concerns that have since been resolved. As with the current concerns with Rice, I would have preferred to have those changes done on a separate branch (and that should be the procedure moving forward), but in the end it all worked out.
I think ecsv/video-rice is the last piece left to resolve here (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd like to see it merged into master, but not sure I have the "git-fu" to do it without distroying history (I'll probably leave this one for Sven to do, since he is the git/hg master

) The altered version is in Lioncash's branch, so none of his previous work will be lost. And we can merge back in any beneficial updates down the road after testing.