[FFmpeg-user] How to preserve file time

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Aug 18 13:16:49 EEST 2024



Am 18.08.24 um 12:12 schrieb Ulf Zibis:
> 
> Am 18.08.24 um 03:04 schrieb Oliver Fromme:
>> Would you please stop this?  This kind of discussion is not going to
>> improve FFmpeg.  You're just annoying everybody.
> You mean the discussion about smartness, dumbness and nonsense? I agree 
> with you.
> Please address the originator.

which is you

a write operation is identical no matter if a file with that name 
already exists - and both, the application nor the filesystem, cares 
waht is something *to you*

Ulf Zibis (12024-08-15):
 > To me, "deleting/overwriting existing files" and "preserving file
 > times from input to output" are *both* "OS / file system tasks"
 >
 > Isn't removing existing output files samely a question for the OS?


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