[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add option for writing detailed filtergraph information to file or stdout

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Nicolas George
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2021 10:05
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add option for writing
> detailed filtergraph information to file or stdout
> 
> Soft Works (12021-08-26):
> > Does that answer your question?
> 
> Yes. It is almost exactly what I had guessed. And therefore my answer
> is
> what I expected it do be: that does not justify thousands, or even
> hundreds, of lines of code in the core library and tools.

To be clear: I didn't submit this to end up in a LOC count discussion.
My point is that there's much more relevant and important information
that a filtergraph-information feature should provide than what your
proposed patch is outputting.

It doesn't make sense to me to add once another half-baked graph-output
functionality that provides just a fraction of the relevant information,
consisting of just two or three values that a developer is currently 
interested in (and then praising it for its low LOC count).

A new feature for outputting filtergraph information should be complete,
comprehensive and provide machine readable output.
It doesn't have to be my code, but it should provide similar information
(ideally even more).

softworkz