[MPlayer-dev-eng] [SURVEY] change mencoder's default ofilename extension?

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:49:34PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 03:31:58AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> >
> >>Saturday 26 November 2005 03:25 tarihinde, Reynaldo H. Verdejo
> >>Pinochet þunlarý yazmýþtý:
> 
> >>>Humm, I dont think so, outfile.mencoder has an 'unknown'
> >>>extension, whereas outfile doesnt have an extension at all I
> >>>think it has to be just a word. Anyway, real question is:
> >>>
> >>>is this something we should take care of? if so, is this the best
> >>>aproach?
> >>
> >>outfile is way too generic IMHO.
> >
> >what about removing the default altogether and forcing the user to
> >specify a name with -o??
> 
> That's good policy in some ways, but in practice I think it'd just
> amount to intentional user unfriendliness. It would be potentially
> viable, however, if we allow the user to specify a default for -o in the
> config file - either a relative path or an absolute one.

umm, of course this is possible! just add:
o=test.avi
in your mencoder config file!

anyway as long as mencoder overwrites existing files (which i think it
should) it's very bad to have a default output filename, imo!

rich