[Bf-committers] FFMPEG UI is bad

[Mike Belanger]

Absolutely +1 from me.  FFMPEG is currently a minefield for users, even
developers.

Although, I must warn different encoding settings work on different
platforms.  So the presets would
best be OS-specific.

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Dinges <dingto at gmx.de> wrote:

> +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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