[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] ffmpeg: Add display_matrix option

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Thilo Borgmann (2022-08-15 22:02:09)
> $subject
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> -Thilo
> From fe2ff114cb004f897c7774753d9cf28298eba82d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Jan=20Ekstr=C3=B6m?= <jeebjp at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:09:27 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] ffmpeg: Add display_matrix option
> 
> This enables overriding the rotation as well as horizontal/vertical
> flip state of a specific video stream on the input side.
> 
> Additionally, switch the singular test that was utilizing the rotation
> metadata to instead override the input display rotation, thus leading
> to the same result.
> ---

I still don't see how it's better to squash multiple options into a
single option.

It requires all this extra infrastructure and in the end it's less
user-friendly, because user-understandable things like rotation or flips
are now hidden under "display matrix". How many users would know what a
display matrix is?

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Anton Khirnov