On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:32:24 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote:
> Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > As requested on ffmpeg-user.
> >
> > I'm a little ambivalent to this. Let me explain. You can
> > easily fix this with a shell script that creates links
> > from img-{1000...1}.jpg to img_2_{1...1000}.jpg and deletes
> > them after the ffmpeg run. This is super-trivial.
>
> But the fact that this can be solved with other (non-FFmpeg)
> tools never seemed to be an argument here (and I believe this
> was usually a good thing): What has changed?
> And don't you agree that using two steps to work around a
> smalls self-contained patch is generally a very bad idea?
>
> > The problem I have with this is that we're slowly, and very
> > very hackishly, extending the sequential image support without
> > addressing its fundamental weakness as a non-unix tool:
>
> I am not sure I understand so far, but it may be related.
>
> > it doesn't use shell expansion. I'd want to use
> > ffmpeg -i img-*.jpg so it skips non-existing frames,
>
> Could you elaborate?
> I believe this either cannot work, or does already work,
> depending on what you mean.
> In any case, how is this muxer-related patch related to a
> demuxing issue you see?
>
> > or use other unix tools to rev the order or whatever,
> > shell syntax is great for this but ffmpeg.exe does not
> > support any of that.
>
> (I find it striking that you use "shell syntax" and "exe"
> in the same sentence...)
>
> > So why hack in this one silly thing if we don't address
> > the fundamental problem instead, which would also fix this?
>
> How would fix a demuxing issue (that I don't think was ever
> reported, but as said I may just misunderstand you) solve a
> real enhancement request by a real user that sounds easily
> understandable to me?
>
Adding dozens of small very specialized features leads to
unmaintainable and unusable software, even if the change itself is
inoffensive. Powerful, orthogonal mechanisms will always be superior.
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