[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: insufficient error reporting

[Alban Bedel]

Hi D Richard Felker III,

on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:43:01 -0500 you wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:08:25PM +0200, Andriy N. Gritsenko wrote:
> >     Hi, Arpi!
> > 
> > Sometime (on Thursday, March 13 at 15:20) I've received something...
> > 
> > >yes we all like Albeu's great new nice configparser system very much
> > >:)
> > 
> > Have to agree with you. :(  I've spent three days already to find out
> > how it works and how to don't be lost in these jungles and more and
> > more... I fount some traps but I'm continuing with that again. And all
> > that because I just try implement '-ovcopts'...
> 
> I'm still not sure this is a good idea. If you regularly use both xvid
> and lavc (or, once vorbis is supported, maybe mp3 and vorbis), it's
> nice to have defaults for both in your mencoder config file.
> Especially when the meanings are different (e.g. higher q = higher
> quality for vorbis, but lower quality for lame). This is rather
> troublesome if codecs share their options like this...

Why not have the current options set the defaults and a general option
for per-instance options. So in your config you have the defaults and
you can always use the same option on the command line. And well the
general option should be forbiden in config files.
	Albeu