[MPlayer-cvslog] Re: CVS: main/TOOLS README,1.3,1.4

[Tobias Diedrich]

The Wanderer wrote:

> Will it in fact work even if the said streams are muxed properly, i.e.
> in interleaved chunks, rather than as one contiguous block per stream? I
> don't know of any examples of such, but the author of the program in
> question has said that it should be possible, he just hasn't done it.

Hmm, it will reopen the dumpfile in append mode, so I guess it
should work.

> Also, unless people think it should be considered obvious, it might be
> worth noting that it dumps the stream *both* to stdout and to an
> extension-altered version of the source filename - especially depending
> on what it does if the latter file already exists (I haven't tested and,
> at present am too lazy to read the source to check). I'm not entirely
> sure why it would make sense for the script to do both of those, in that
> if one wants to dump the text to a file one probably doesn't want to see
> it on stdout and that it is easily possible to redirect stdout into a
> file, but who am I to complain when I asked for the thing?

I guess I will remove the output to file and only output to stdout. :-)

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