[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 7/8] fftools/ffmpeg_demux: implement -bsf for input

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2024-01-21 19:35:01 +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Stefano Sabatini (2024-01-21 19:22:35)
> > On date Sunday 2024-01-21 18:43:36 +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > Quoting Stefano Sabatini (2024-01-20 12:32:42)
> > [...]
> > > > When you present an example you usually start with an explanation
> > > > (what it does) and then present the command, not the other way around.
> > > 
> > > I don't, neither does most literature I can recall. Typically you first
> > > present a thing, then explain its structure. Explaning the structure of
> > > something the reader has not seen yet is backwards, unnatural, and hard
> > > to understand.
> > 
> > I still don't understand what "literature" you are referring to.
> 
> Various manuals and textbooks I've read.
> 
> > If you see most examples in the FFmpeg docs they are in the form:
> 

> Our documentation is widely considered to be somewhere between atrocious
> and unusable

nah, it's not so bad, also this applies to most documentation

Besides FFmpeg is possibly the most sophisticated existing toolkit in
terms of features/configuration, so this is somehow expected (at least
if you expect a tutorial rather than a reference).

> (and sometimes actively misleading), so the fact that it
> does something in a specific way does not at all mean that it's a good
> idea.

So what do you propose instead? The fact that it is not perfect does
not mean that everything is bad.