[MPlayer-dev-eng] [SURVEY] change mencoder's default ofilename extension?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:10:58AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> 
> I didn't respond partly cause i lost interest, but also I guess cause we'll 
> never agree on this. I just don't see the problem..
> You say the problem is, a user did -of mpeg and got a test.avi ...
> If a user specifies explictly -of mpeg, he should atleast be smart enough 
> to either use -o, or to figure out that the output test.avi is in fact an 
> MPEG file. More so now that there's a big loud message saying so. Maybe the 
> message should change from 'WARNING: ' to 'NOTE: ' ...

But people are forgetful and make mistakes.  Somebody might put the
test.avi somewhere and later forget that it was in fact an MPEG file.
She might pass it on to somebody and that person might not be able to
play it.

It would not take much effort from our side to add a little bit of
intelligence to MEncoder, so why not provide users the convenience?

Diego