[Bf-committers] FFMPEG UI is bad
Thomas Dinges
dingto at gmx.de
Mon May 31 13:50:26 CEST 2010
+1 for this :)
This way we may also reduce the amount of ffmpeg bug reports. :P
Am 31.05.2010 13:47, schrieb Joshua Leung:
> Yep.
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Thomas Dinges<dingto at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> So you mean, put all possible combinations that work and we support,
>> into the list and get rid of the manual settings for codec/format?
>>
>> Am 31.05.2010 13:41, schrieb Joshua Leung:
>>
>>> +1 to this suggestion.
>>>
>>> While technically it might be nice to be able to control these things,
>>> the fact with FFMPEG is that it is only usable with a very select few
>>> combinations, and even then only under strict conditions (any other
>>> combinations either crash immediately, crash on the last frame of the
>>> render, or give useless junk that few players can make sense of
>>> correctly). Having a double-step to choose the output format (FFMPEG
>>> -> Encoding) is really quite clumsy, and as Gustav mentioned, an
>>> "FFMPEG" option will be pointless and confusing for many users.
>>>
>>> 2010/5/31 Gustav Göransson<gustav.goransson at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's confusing indeed. However most uses don't have a clue what FFMPEG
>>>> is, which makes it confusing to only have FFMPEG. An alternative might
>>>> be to merge the encoding and the output panel and have all file format
>>>> in the same list...
>>>>
>>>> /gustav
>>>>
>>>>
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