[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 06.48, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 19.06.25 um 12:37 schrieb Mark Filipak:
>> On 18/06/2025 23.56, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
>>> The output -told- you that #0:2 is subtitles, so an error message containing that is probably 
>>> about those subtitles. Seemed obvious to me and I don't work much with ffmpeg.
>>>
>>> I suggest you reread the basic ffmpeg manual at https:// www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html; it's always 
>>> good to reread the basics, sometimes useful things pop out afresh.
>>
>> Take a pill, Z.
>>
>> You folks will never understand a user's perspective. I'm supposed to know what "sost#0:2" means 
>> because... of what? Because I'm supposed to be psychic?
> 
> not every software is for every type of user and no: you can't make a powerful CLI as easy to be 
> used by trained monkeys

Trained monkeys, eh?

> it's the same as windows versus linux

Oh, dear. You're comparing an operating system with a runtime executive?

> the software is user friendly but seletcive which users are it's friends

Ha, ha. Now that's funny.

> everytime i see a topic with a ton of mails without reading anything i know you are involved

And why do you suppose that is? Could it be because questions, simple questions, don't get answered? 
I have been here for years. I've asked the same question in differing ways for years. I even put the 
question about the structure of the pictures (or fields) in the processing pipeline into a Socratic 
statement. I didn't get an answer this time around.

My file manager and my text editor are both commercial programs. They work superbly and are well 
documented in English, not programmers' pigeon English. Codesmiths should not manage projects and 
they should not write user documentation. That's simply because they're not qualified for those jobs.

FOSS is a failure and it's killed the market for well run projects and for well-written applications 
precisely because everyone needs to make a living and you can't make a living writing FOSS. That's a 
widely held opinion, especially among professionals.