[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Why is the mplayer-1.0pre3-dumpvideo.diff patch not applied?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:52:43PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > IMO this is nonsense. m_encoder_ is an encoder, not a dumper, and
> > dumping does not go at all with its functionality. "dump" is not
> > an "output format" in the current meaning of output formats for
> > mencoder.
> 
> IMHO -of rawvideo does make a lot of sense if you do transcoding to mpeg2 with
> mencoder and want to use an external muxer because you can skip the
> -dumpvideo step.

I agree, but this has nothing to do with what we were talking about
(which was dumping, not raw output).

Rich