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

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 08.03, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 19.06.25 um 13:59 schrieb Mark Filipak:
>> My file manager and my text editor are both commercial programs. They work superbly and are well 
>> documented in English, not programmers' pigeon English. 
> 
> then use your file manager and text editor
> oh - both can't do complex things

The hell they can't! My file manager is TotalCommander. I bought it at a time when you could 
actually buy software -- I bought it as shareware (remember shareware?). TotalCommander can do 
almost anything. My text editor is TextPad. It can do almost anything with text. Both have regular 
expression processing, for example, that's built-in and functions very smoothly.

There is a FOSS clone of TextPad. It's named NotePad++. It's somewhat pathetic.

>> Codesmiths should not manage projects and they should not write user documentation. That's simply 
>> because they're not qualified for those jobs.
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> you are not qualified

In fact, I am qualified. I ran projects in Silicon Valley for 25 years.

>> 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.
> proven as nonsense

A few years ago I was corresponding with a former boss. He was a college professor in Computer 
Science and the Director of Advanced Engineering at Atari. I told him about my experiences with 
FFmpeg. He said that FFmpeg is a guild, a trade guild.

I thought about that for a long time. He's right. I proposed, on this mailing list, that FFmpeg 
become an actual guild, with dues, so that the developers could make a living. My posts just 
attracted ridicule.

Developers and users should be working together. That doesn't happen.