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

[The Wanderer]

Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:21:15PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> I'll note, first, that I would never support automatic extension
>> based on container in any case *except* when no output filename was
>> specified.
>> 
>> Other than that, I can only repeat that it can hardly be less
>> correct to use one of the selection of potentially valid extensions
>> rather than using a known-invalid extension.
>> 
>> -of raw* I'll admit that I'm not sure how to handle; perhaps
>> specifically use no extension, or ".rawvideo" or the like?
>> 
>> If we can't come to an agreement on the subject, then it would
>> probably be best to settle on my second-choice solution, making
>> '-o' mandatory and documenting very clearly the ability to set it
>> in the config file.
> 
> Thing is, by the time been mencoder isn't smarter enough to select an
> apropiate file extension by examining MUXER_TYPE, so, he shouldnt try
> to doit at all.

...I'm sorry to say it, but this is so ungrammatical that I don't think
I can figure out what all of it means.

> Force -o and make some trivial tests to match -of used with
> out_filename extension seems enough to me. Im updating the patch, see
> it attached at the end of this thread.

I don't think it's ideal, as I've said, but it's certainly the
second-best choice.

> ps: could you make up a few lines for the documentation part?

First I'd need to know exactly *where* the "o= can go in the config
file" explanation should be put; the two obvious places are "under the
-o option in the man page" and "in the same place where the config file
itself is explained", but I'm not sure the former is enough and I don't
know where the latter is.

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