[MPlayer-users] Re: Encoding quality advices

[gabor]

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 18:27, Yourself wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Quoting Thilo Schulz (arny at ats.s.bawue.de) as `TS'
> Message date: 01 Dec 2002 at 17:38
> 
> TS> [snip]. But what the open source community is 
> TS> about, giving everybody a nice usable system that they do not need to learn 
> TS> for hours how it works before they can use it, where is this ideal?
> 
> Huge mistake... Open source is about source code available to everyone.
> Nothing more, nothing less.
> 
> It has nothing to do with ease of use. Some of the best open source software out
> there are, in fact, not easy to use (but extremely efficient, after you
> know them):
> 
> -> vi
> -> emacs
> -> gdb
> -> gawk
> -> sed
> -> grep
> ...
> 
> i'm sure we can enlarge the list as much as we like, but the thing is
> that to my experience, open source is about quality, efficiency, and of
> course availability to everyone. 
> 
> I agree that mencoder is "difficult", but it is its power and
> flexibility that introduces this. and I prefer difficult and flexible to
> easy and simplistic.

i prefer easy an flexible :)

now seriously:

why does everyone think that something flexible has to be complicated?

vi is flexible, but at the beginning i only knew that with 'a' you can
begin to edit, with 'ZZ' you save and exit...

then i learned that with ':q!' you don't save and exit.... then i
learned ':w"..... and then haven't learned anything for a long time, but
now i mastered '>' '<' 'G' 'gg' :)))

so as you see, even knowing only a little you can do a lot...

so for mencoder i vote for the solution offered by someone:
have a 'config' file for mencoder as well, where you would describe
aliases for a setting-group... and mencoder could ship with some
predefined aliases that's all.. you don't lose anything , you gain a
lot..

bye,
gabor

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