[Bf-committers] FFMPEG UI is bad

[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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