[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main mencoder.c,1.326,1.327

[The Wanderer]

On 12/24/2005 07:00 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:52:23PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> On 12/23/2005 09:47 AM, Oded Shimon wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:53:47AM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Now, the next thing I'd like to see done is to set default
>>>> output format to MUXER_TYPE_AUTO and use filename extension
>>>> here to set muxer type. Any objections?
>>> 
>>> ugh, we already discussed this, absoloutely not.
>> 
>> Agreed. I was supporting using muxer type to set filename
>> extension, in the case of 'no output filename specified' and in no
>> other case; I would definitely not support using filename extension
>> to set muxer type.
> 
> FFmpeg chooses muxer type by filename extension.  I don't see why
> this should be such a bad idea...

Partly because it supports the "extension matters" paradigm, I think.
Beyond that, my previous comment does not appear to have been well
considered; however, I still would raise the issue of what would be done
when no extension is given and no -of is specified. FFmpeg simply fails
out, but FFmpeg is also (in my limited experience) rather less
user-friendly than MPlayer is.

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