[MPlayer-users] mencoder output is to test.avi despite another name being passed

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:26:56PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:19:25PM +0100, J. Grant wrote:
> > Hi Giacomo,
> > 
> 
> Hello J,
> 
> > on the 21/07/04 00:31, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > >-lameopts cbr:br=128
> > >             ^
> > 
> > Thanks, that fixed it.  So if no -o option recognised on the command 
> > line, mencoder just defaults test.avi?
> 
> yes, default is test.avi
> 
> > Perhaps getopt_long() could be used in mencoder?  I see presently a 
> > home-grown equivalent is used instead.
> 
> You can complain with the developers for that, but I guess the most common
> answer will be: do it and send a patch :-).

No, the most common answer will be no. It's completely incompatible
with mplayer's option style. Anyway, the -o gets read, but because it
came _after_ the second filename, "br=128", it applies only to the
second file. And mencoder ignores all but the first file.

Rich