Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.02.21 um 09:12 schrieb Korn Moffle: unsubscribe me idiot - how dumb are you when you believe writing that into a random answer with a random subject could work? > ___ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-04 Thread Korn Moffle
complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem] On Monday, 1 February 2021, 23:36:19 GMT, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > In many projects, "instead of complaining, submit a patch" is good > advice. It turns users into contributors. But FFmpeg is not just any> projec

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2021-02-02 12:29, Michael Koch wrote: Another suggestion: A programmer who adds a new feature to FFmpeg shouldn't write the documentation for this feature himself. Because for him everything is totally clear and he forgets to describe some important details. It's better if someone else test

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Mark Filipak (ffmpeg)
On 02/02/2021 04:23 PM, Michael Koch wrote: Am 02.02.2021 um 22:05 schrieb Mark Filipak (ffmpeg): On 02/02/2021 03:29 PM, Michael Koch wrote: -snip- In my opinion, it would be best to have all documentation in a wiki. A wiki? Available to all to modify? Available to all who are registered t

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Michael Koch
Am 02.02.2021 um 22:05 schrieb Mark Filipak (ffmpeg): On 02/02/2021 03:29 PM, Michael Koch wrote: -snip- In my opinion, it would be best to have all documentation in a wiki. A wiki? Available to all to modify? Available to all who are registered to the wiki. Why not? The wiki has a history

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Mark Filipak (ffmpeg)
On 02/02/2021 03:29 PM, Michael Koch wrote: -snip- In my opinion, it would be best to have all documentation in a wiki. A wiki? Available to all to modify? I respectfully disagree. Another suggestion: A programmer who adds a new feature to FFmpeg shouldn't write the documentation for this fea

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 20:29:44 GMT, Michael Koch wrote: > In my opinion, it would be best to have all documentation in a wiki. I think that's probably a good idea. For something the size and complexity of ffmpeg, trying to embed the documentation into the executable is crazy. > Another

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Michael Koch
Am 02.02.2021 um 19:54 schrieb Mark Filipak (ffmpeg): Is there a middle way? Is the choice really, 1, an automated system, or 2, chaos? How about a single person who receives all documentation submittals and fits them into a documentation structure? An editor. That's how the non-coder world

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Mark Filipak (ffmpeg)
Is there a middle way? Is the choice really, 1, an automated system, or 2, chaos? How about a single person who receives all documentation submittals and fits them into a documentation structure? An editor. That's how the non-coder world works. And it works well. And it's flexible. And it ca

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/2/2021 2:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: do you fucking idiot realize that i have *nothing* to do with the ffmpeg project? i'm an ordinar yffmoeg user like you Then why are you arguing about the tools that other people use? If it gets the job done, use it. Oh, have have you ever tried serio

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Nicolas George
Chris Angelico (12021-02-02): > And Phil learned basic courtesy. You mistake the absence of profanity with courtesy. It is a common mistake. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-us

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 12:13 schrieb Chris Angelico: On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:00 PM Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.02.21 um 11:54 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:17:11 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: (snip) Well, you just keep telling yourself all that, and w

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:00 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 02.02.21 um 11:54 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: > > > > > > On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:17:11 GMT, Reindl Harald > > wrote: > > (snip) > > Well, you just keep telling yourself all that, and we'll keep admiring the >

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 11:54 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:17:11 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: (snip) Well, you just keep telling yourself all that, and we'll keep admiring the fantastic documentation ffmpeg has. Obviously, it's a brilliant endorsement of

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:17:11 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: (snip) Well, you just keep telling yourself all that, and we'll keep admiring the fantastic documentation ffmpeg has. Obviously, it's a brilliant endorsement of whatever your approach is. You have people offering to do free

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 11:11 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:04:44 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: > sorry but in most cases when someone comes up with word/excel files> instead of pure plaintext things only become worser and that will not> change in 100 yea

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 10:04:44 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: > sorry but in most cases when someone comes up with word/excel files> instead > of pure plaintext things only become worser and that will not> change in 100 > years I'm going to assume from that you've never worked on

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 10:46 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 06:30:35 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: muhahaha - a word document is how writers work? Yeah. I mean, think about it - how else are you going to track changes in a document? I guess you could improvi

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-02 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 06:30:35 GMT, Reindl Harald wrote: > muhahaha - a word document is how writers work? Yeah. I mean, think about it - how else are you going to track changes in a document? I guess you could improvise some sort of solution by, I don't know, sending each other

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 07:39 schrieb Carl Zwanzig: On 2/1/2021 10:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: muhahaha - a word document is how writers work? in case microsoft office (or libre office writer) is the solution i want my problem back So far off-topic, but YES, most writers (technical, legal, fiction,

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/1/2021 10:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: muhahaha - a word document is how writers work? in case microsoft office (or libre office writer) is the solution i want my problem back So far off-topic, but YES, most writers (technical, legal, fiction, and otherwise) work in ms-word (with the occ

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.02.21 um 01:12 schrieb Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user: The way it would usually work, if someone was willing to do some pro bono technical writing, is that it'd be written as a word document, because that's how writers work, revised using the features built into word documents for that e

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-01 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
On Monday, 1 February 2021, 23:36:19 GMT, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > In many projects, "instead of complaining, submit a patch" is good > advice. It turns users into contributors. But FFmpeg is not just any> project. Quite. Knowing what I know, I'd sooner eat catfood than submit changes to ffmp

[FFmpeg-user] "instead of complaining, submit a patch" [was: Re: minterpolate problem]

2021-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2021-01-31 05:05, Rodney Baker wrote: On Friday, 29 January 2021 21:12:06 ACDT Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user wrote: On Friday, 29 January 2021, 09:43:09 GMT, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) wrote: Try 'ffmpeg -h type=filter. It fails. Why? Because "filter" is a "type", not a "name" -- never mind