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

[Mark Filipak]

On 28/05/2025 17.28, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> 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.

My challenge was to Carl.