[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main mencoder.c,1.326,1.327

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 07:23:11PM +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 12/24/2005 07:00 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:52:23PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > >
> > >>On 12/23/2005 09:47 AM, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:53:47AM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>Now, the next thing I'd like to see done is to set default
> > >>>>output format to MUXER_TYPE_AUTO and use filename extension
> > >>>>here to set muxer type. Any objections?
> > >>>
> > >>>ugh, we already discussed this, absoloutely not.
> > >>
> > >>Agreed. I was supporting using muxer type to set filename
> > >>extension, in the case of 'no output filename specified' and in no
> > >>other case; I would definitely not support using filename extension
> > >>to set muxer type.
> > >
> > >FFmpeg chooses muxer type by filename extension.  I don't see why
> > >this should be such a bad idea...
> > 
> > Partly because it supports the "extension matters" paradigm, I think.
> > Beyond that, my previous comment does not appear to have been well
> > considered; however, I still would raise the issue of what would be done
> > when no extension is given and no -of is specified. FFmpeg simply fails
> > out, but FFmpeg is also (in my limited experience) rather less
> > user-friendly than MPlayer is.
> 
>   I think it is perfectly fine to choose muxer from the given
> output filename extension as long as you can still optionally
> override it.
> 
>   Implementation may still be more of a problem though.

This was discussed to death already and there's really no sane way to
do it.. Just drop it.

Rich