[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MP] [PATCH] making xvid options lavc compatible

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Matthias Wieser wrote:

MW>> But you are breaking scripts that are already written! IMHO if you have
MW>> troubles with your script you should work around them.
MW>
MW>* old options stay unmodified but print out "[...] deprecated [...]
MW>will be removed [date] [...]!"
MW>+ Add renamed options
MW>+ After some time remove old options.
MW>
MW>Only a suggestion...

Sure, but why? What's the point? Making xvid options consistent with
xvid4conf is more reasonable than making them consistent with lavc.
This way, only a few options like hq_ac->hqacpred need to be changed.

Also it's impossible to change all xvid options to lavc style anyway
(say, changing quant_type=mpeg to mpeg_quant), so why bother with some
of them?

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Vladimir