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

[Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:50:49PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:21:15PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >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.

I was this '' close to flame you here. Anyway, Ill try
harder the next time, sorry.

Ok, how about this:

Mencoder in its _current_ state cant properly guess* output 
file extension, so, it should not try to => force -o

> 
> >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.

Is the only one with a patch.

> 
> >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.

Pick the former, is enough IMHO.

Best regards

   Reynaldo
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