[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Improve error-messaging with ffmpeg presets

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2008-10-01 17:46:53 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd encoded:
> 
> tripp wrote:
> >
> > --- On Wed, 10/1/08, Baptiste Coudurier <baptiste.coudurier at smartjog.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >
> >> <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >> Life gets so much easier once you learn to see the truth.
> >
> >> > Are we talking about a technical issue here or are you
> >> > founding a new church? =)
> >
> >> Can you please spare us your sarcams ?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that was damn funny.
> 
> Yes, I did find that reply rather amusing.  The part where he called
> me the most unfriendly person on the list less so, even though I half
> expected something like that.
> 
> > whereas unbridled contempt towards the average computer user,
> > never is.
> 
> If you call that contempt, then you don't know me very well.
> Besides, FFmpeg isn't intended for the average computer user.
> There are plenty of GUI frontends they can use.

That's not an excuse for implementing a bad/poor user interface. I
want ffmpeg to be beyond the average computer program, so that even an
average computer user should be able to use it smoothly.

Regards.
-- 
FFmpeg = Furious Faboulous Magic Prodigious Embarassing Gadget