[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavf/img2enc: Allow to reverse frame order

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:01:26AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > wm4 <nfxjfg <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Adding dozens of small very specialized features leads to
> > > unmaintainable and unusable software, even if the change
> > > itself is inoffensive.
> >
> > I don't think this is a "small" feature, I consider it a
> > very useful request.
> > I also wonder why it is "very specialized": I can see a
> > few uses for the new option.
> 
> 
> Nonetheless, it does not belong in ffmpeg or libav*.
> 
> > Powerful, orthogonal mechanisms will always be superior.
> >
> > So how does this mechanism look like for the requested
> > use case?
> 
> 
> man ln.

iam not sure this is such a great alternative

it seems rather inconvenient. why i think so ?
well if it was convenient you would likely have written the working
command and not pointed to the manual

also does this work on all platforms? (windows?)

and ffmpeg supports alot more than files, one could want to do

-reverse 1 -i http://foobar.com/image%d.jpeg

to do that with ln one either needs some remote mounting http thing
(i dont even know how to do that) or download all the images first
which may or may not be practical depending on their number and size

that said, i too prefer if there was a generic+portable+simple
solution using something that works with all comand line tools and
isnt ffmpeg specific

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