Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Hans Carlson
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Carl Zwanzig wrote: On 8/22/2020 2:03 AM, Nicolas George wrote: There is no duplication, only multiple outputs. Would you also remove the man pages because they are "duplicate" of the HTML pages? Multiple outputs is not duplicative? If the same info in the same format

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Rodney Baker
On Friday, 21 August 2020 19:39:07 ACST Gyan Doshi wrote: > On 21-08-2020 02:36 pm, Michael Koch wrote: > > Am 21.08.2020 um 10:50 schrieb Paul B Mahol: > >> On 8/21/20, Michael Koch wrote: > >>> Please add this to the documentation (for example in chapter 20.9 > >>> image2) > >>> > >>> FFmpeg

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
One of the things about man pages is that users invariably lack the man command under windows, and you don't get the man pages with most windows builds of ffmpeg anyway. The executable emits messages about man pages, which I've always viewed as practically a bug on Windows builds which will

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 8/22/2020 2:03 AM, Nicolas George wrote: There is no duplication, only multiple outputs. Would you also remove the man pages because they are "duplicate" of the HTML pages? Multiple outputs is not duplicative? If the same info in the same format is in two places, that rather sounds like

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Am Fr., 21. Aug. 2020 um 18:34 Uhr schrieb Michael Koch : > > Am 21.08.2020 um 17:06 schrieb Gyan Doshi: > > What concerns do you have about using git? > > I don't understand how git works. Have tried it some time ago, > but didn't work, so I gave up. No good instructions available. It is not

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Koch (12020-08-22): > I agree that it's useful to have one file which contains _all_ > documentation. Searching in one file is easier than searching at multiple > places. But the content of general.html is missing in ffmpeg-all.html (and > also in ffplay-all.html and ffprobe-all.html).

Re: [FFmpeg-user] "documented implicitly" part 2 [was: Re: Problem while converting DNG sequnece to video file]

2020-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Jim DeLaHunt (12020-08-21): > Nicholas, I do not intend to relitigate a review of my patch rewriting the > "fps" filter documentation[1] on the ffmpeg-user list. But also, I think > your message gives a false impression of what blocked that patch, and I > don't want to leave that false impression

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Michael Koch
Am 22.08.2020 um 11:03 schrieb Nicolas George: Carl Zwanzig (12020-08-21): IMHO, it would make more sense to remove the -all file as it's unweildly and doesn't seem to contain to contain everything anyway. It does contain everything, or there is a bug somewhere. And it is useful precisely

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?

2020-08-22 Thread Nicolas George
Carl Zwanzig (12020-08-21): > IMHO, it would make more sense to remove the -all file as it's unweildly and > doesn't seem to contain to contain everything anyway. It does contain everything, or there is a bug somewhere. And it is useful precisely because it contains everything: it stays. >

Re: [FFmpeg-user] A systematic effort for documentation? [was: Re: Why is format=rgb24 required after maskedmerge?]

2020-08-22 Thread Mark Filipak
On 08/21/2020 11:20 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: -snip- There is a great need for a glossary. It should be structured so that each term has an anchor, allowing references from anywhere in the documentation to the glossary. My nomination for entries: "fps", "GOP", "PTS", "time base". -snip- I have