Douglas Pollard schrieb: > Here's what I wish, since we are talking about want's. I wish some really > smart programmer would write a program that could Analise a video file and > tell you exactly what is wrong with it. Every now and then I do a video and > there is an error in the file and I can't find it. Usually I wind up starting > over again. Most of the time I don't know there is a problem untill I try > to burn to DVD or upload to U-tube.
Hi Doug, good point to note indeed.... To expand a bit on that -- the reason is that there is so much flexibility in most media formats. And still more, many media formats can be (and indeed are frequently) implemented slightly wrong. Now, any programmer implementing a "media player" has the huge interest that his creation can play as much media from other people as possible. Thus any such implementer of a "media player" has a huge desire to silently ignore small misfits in any media file he accepts. Which, obviously is bad for your intention, because this way you don't get a clear indication when something is broken. But now, if we try to turn the situation around and try to come up with a software which is pedantic and picky and clearly indicates any problem, interestingly enough we exchange an easy goal (just get it playing "somehow") with an almost impossible goal (find out why some unknown other software "out there" at youtube.com can/can not play a media file). Currently, I can only see the (admittedly pretty much lame) solution to provide a set of presets "known to work". At least that would be as start, and maybe then some day there is a really smart programmer.... Cheers, Hermann V. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
