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 <[email protected]> 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<[email protected]> 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<[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> > >>>> 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Bf-committers mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- www.watchmike.ca _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
