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

[The Wanderer]

On 12/26/2005 12:21 PM, Joey Parrish wrote:

> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 07:23:11PM +0100, Alexander Strasser wrote:

>>> I think it is perfectly fine to choose muxer from the given
>>> output filename extension as long as you can still optionally
>>> override it.
>>> 
>>> Implementation may still be more of a problem though.
>> 
>> This was discussed to death already and there's really no sane way
>> to do it.. Just drop it.
> 
> Not true.  Sane way: in absence of -of, of is guessed.  If you don't
> give an extension we recognize, either fail with warning or default
> to avi.  Add of=avi to your config for the old behavior.  What's
> wrong with that?

On the face of it, I'll admit that I don't see much.

Although I'll note that I'm not sure he didn't mean "there's no sane way
to implement it".

> It does not support the "extension matters" paradigm either.  If you
> want to use arbitrary extensions, simply specify of explicitly.  Not
> difficult.

Actually, by making there be a context in which extension is relevant to
behaviour, it *does* support the "extension matters" paradigm. Whether
this is a bad enough thing to make the rest of it not worthwhile is
another question, but...

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