[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] fftools/cmdutils: Print filter input/output formats in help output

Soft Works softworkz at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 13 11:24:10 EEST 2021



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Paul B Mahol
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 10:16 AM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] fftools/cmdutils: Print
> filter input/output formats in help output
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 9:58 AM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Soft Works
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:36 AM
> > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] fftools/cmdutils: Print
> > > filter input/output formats in help output
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf
> Of
> > > > Paul B Mahol
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:27 AM
> > > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > > > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] fftools/cmdutils: Print
> > > > filter input/output formats in help output
> > > >
> > > > scale, extractplanes, alphaextract, waveform, vectorscope.
> > >
> > > See the results below. Nothing is flawed. Of course there can't
> be an
> > > output in all cases, as you have pointed out correctly.
> > >
> > > But for the remaining 95% of filters, the formats output is very
> > > useful.
> > > (and correct)
> >
> 
> As proved by above, this is big hack and should not be applied, its
> also
> ugly.

I'm not sure what you mean. I do not see at which point this would 
qualify as a hack.

Anyway, then - would you have a better suggestion for getting at 
and printing out this information?

Or do you want to say that this information should remain hidden
knowledge only available to developers?

Thanks,
softworkz


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