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

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 12.16, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 6/19/2025 3:37 AM, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> what is that supposed to mean?
> 
>> You folks will never understand a user's perspective. 
> 
> Excuse me, I _am_ a user*. I do not work on the ffmpeg code although after a few decades of writing 
> code, sometimes in 'c', I can generally read it.
> 
> *everyone using a computer is a 'user' of something, some have a better understanding of how the 
> systems work.
> 
>> I'm supposed to know what "sost#0:2" means because... of what? Because I'm supposed to be psychic?
> 
> No, you're supposed to use the tools available to find information that may lead you to an 
> understanding. Demanding answers with no apparent effort to find them yourself comes across as lazy 
> and inconsiderate. Simply searching 'ffmpeg "sost"' turns up multiple hits that indicate that 
> subtitles are involved;

Why would I search for 'ffmpeg "sost"', Z? I was faced with an statement that doesn't even say it is 
an error, embedded in a sea of jargon, with zero guidance regarding the jargon or its formatting or 
'special' words. The jargon seemed to blame my '-c:v libx264' directive when I could plainly see 
that my '-c:v libx264' directive was correct. My conclusion was that FFmpeg is simply buggy or 
quirky, and I think that my conclusion, though wrong, was justified.