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

[Mark Filipak]

On 29/05/2025 12.52, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> 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.

Okay. As you suggest, I'll send them to the ffmpeg-user mailinglist (this mailinglist) in the 
future. Thank you.