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

[Paul B Mahol]

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM Mark Filipak <markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29/05/2025 12.21, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/28/2025 9:33 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
> >>> On 29/05/2025 00.26, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> >>>> On 5/28/2025 2:37 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
> Somebody (unknown) wrote:
> >>>> Nope, it's your assertion (to reuse), you defend it.
> >>> I have nothing to defend.
> >>
> >> Then your assertions are without merit.
> >>
> >>>> Experience tells us that name reuse for different functionality does
> >>>> not end well.
> >>> What about for the same functionality? as is the case here.
> >> (That was not stated in the original, the opposite was implied.)
> >>
> >> Then it's not reusing the name, is it? (It is not.)
>
> Yes, it is reusing the name. Let me cite a case:
> Suppose I were to create a new 'detelecine' filter.
> Suppose I incorporated all the options that the current 'detelecine'
> filter uses so that existing
> scripts continue to work.
> Suppose that my new 'detelecine' filter incorporates new options not found
> in the current
> 'detelecine' filter.
> That's a new filter that reuses the old filter's name
>
> >>>> As for "it ought to be documented", then get with it;
> >>> How?
> >>
> >> That was in the same paragraph as your excerpt.
>
> ?
>
> >>>> ffmpeg is open source- you can download the source, make patches,
> >>> Get serious.
> >>
> >> I was and am quite serious, why do you think otherwise? _You_ are the
> >> one who wants doc changes but appear unwilling to even lift a finger to
> >> help with that. Heck, you don't even make suggestions of what text to
> >> change or what they should say.
> >
> > This!
>
> ?
>
> I can't "make patches". I'm not a 'C' programmer.
>

But you can write electronic mails.

Just write here what should be changed and/or added in documentation.


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