[FFmpeg-user] Why does the 'detelecine' filter exist?

[Paul B Mahol]

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM Mark Filipak <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 28/05/2025 16.33, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> > On 5/28/2025 12:00 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
> >
> >> By continuing to carry obsolete filters, FFmpeg emasculates itself.
> >
> > How?
>
> Developers have to dream up new names because what they are doing, what
> they are writing, has a
> name, but that name has already been used. So, they invent a new name that
> doesn't really apply,
> that nobody knows, and that nobody can figure out.
>
> > There are probably extremely few instances where a name would rationally
> be reused;
>
> Name even a single such instance, Carl. Name reuse to a better filter
> could be covered by the
> documentation.
>

Your mission is failed.


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