[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] sftp: support reading config from ~/.ssh/config

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 11.03.2015, at 13:05, Lukasz Marek <lukasz.m.luki2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11.03.2015 11:15, Nicolas George wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I firmly believe in the following principles:
>> 
>> 1. If the user made an explicit choice, the application must obey, even if
>>    the choice seems stupid.
>> 
>>    In the case of SSH: compression is disabled by default, so enabling it is
>>    an explicit choice.
>> 
>> 2. Applications should as much as possible try to both leave the choice to
>>    the user and have a sensible default, but if for some reason it is not
>>    possible (poor API on a library), then priority should be given to user
>>    choice.
> 
> Isn't this compression transparent? I can play media files with both compression on and off.

Of course, it's just a pointless waste of server CPU time for already compressed files.
If badly implemented it will in addition waste bandwidth and client CPU power as well.