[MPlayer-users] Making movie to jpeg

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Sep 15 12:43:21 CEST 2013


On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > > jpeg: . - Output directory already exists and is writable.
> 
>   Besides what everybody else already mentioned:
> 
>   The above MPlayer message is *not* an error message, if that was
>   the misunderdanding.
> 
> > Besides issues with that specific MPlayer build, this looks like everything is working?
> > What is the problem?
> > I guess there might be quite some software that will have trouble opening RGB jpegs (no idea why that happens) but you should still get jpegs out.
> 
>   Reimar, do you think we should lower that message's logging lebel to
> verbose?

I think it is a good idea to tell users where the files end up.
But maybe it should be reworded, e.g. to:
Writing output images to directory "."
The "already exists and is writable" thing is rather confusing and
worthless information.


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