[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Improve error-messaging with ffmpeg presets

[Ramiro Polla]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Sunday 2008-09-28 20:10:29 +0100, Robert Swain encoded:
>> 2008/9/28 Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it>:
>> > Hi,
>> > as in subject.
>> >
>> > Two hunks will correspond to two separate commits.
>>
>> The concept of the second hunk looks good to me. I'll let Michael
>> decide if the code is OK.
>>
>> The first hunk: I think, if possible to do cleanly, it would be most
>> informative to print the full path at which the code is looking for
>> the file. That way the user knows where the file needs to be without
>> looking any further into the matter.
>
> I don't think it's possible to do it cleanly, there are up to seven
> places where ffmpeg looks for a preset file argument (and I think it
> should also look in the $prefix/share/ffmpeg dir), hopefully we're
> going to document that behaviour.

Wouldn't it be easier to always expect the user to give a full path?

This all started very UNIX-centric. First it expected HOME to be set.
Then more common UNIX paths were added. Since r15443 it now accepts
UNIX absolute or relative paths, but it still doesn't accept Windows
absolute paths (like c:\bla). It's growing, and growing... Maybe it
would be best to expect the user to see a preset parameter as a file
that fopen() will understand, and not just a magical name.

Ramiro Polla