[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] from DivX, Part 2: Multifile source

[Antoine Cellerier]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006, John Koleszar wrote:
> Just to throw another idea out there, you could go to a double character 
> delimiter like "::" which should be easy to differentiate from the x:\ 
> windows syntax and isn't TOO bad readability/consistency wise. Still 
> better than  parsing and stat()'ing each possible chunk, which seems 
> like it would be required if you want to use a single delimiter and 
> allow all possible characters in file names.

Can't you just use something like ? or any other weird character that
people never use in filenames ?

Or you could also ask for something like "filename":"filename" which
wouldn't be too counter intuitive.

my 2 cents,

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Antoine Cellerier
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