[Bf-committers] FFMPEG UI is bad

Thomas Dinges dingto at gmx.de
Mon May 31 13:44:29 CEST 2010


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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