Francesco Romani wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:28 -0700, Phil Ehrens wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The addition of mplayer probing when -x mplayer > > is specified was a very welcome development. > > Unfortunately, it appears that libquicktime based > > probing is being used for mp4 containers even > > when -x mplayer is specified, and the libquicktime > > based probing fails on all but the most mundane > > mp4 file. > > For HEAD and 1.1.x branch, try --mplayer_probe: this will force the > probing using mplayer _and_ the loading of mplayer modules > for import. > > > I humbly request that mplayer be made the default > > probing tool when it is available, since it is > > right 100% of the time, and the other probing models > > are implemented with inadequate error handling to > > detect failure adequately. My recent build of a > > complete toolchain from cvs/svn sources has sent me > > back to using an mplayer probing wrapper and '-H 0' > > for ALL my encodes. > > That's bad, we seriously need to improve our situation here. > > For making mplayer the default probing/import choice, I'm serious doubt. > I sincerly recognizes the virtues of mplayer, but I don't like > to be more and more dependant on it. > > What is the point of transcode if it becomes worthless without > mplayer?
Transcode is currently worthless without Mplayer. What is the point of crippling it further, and alienating the user community? Transcode has much better geometry management and framerate conversion than mencoder, which is enough for it to be able to hold a significant user community. Instead of competing with mencoder, consider how Transcode could gather community by leveraging mplayer's probing and adding these features: Audio treble/bass adjustment (via sox?) Gamma, contrast, brightness, and color correction. Better documentation of the hugely important ffmpeg.cfg interface... If people realised what they could do with the lavc 'nr' denoiser and the cmp and subcmp options they would dance in the street. I guess I could start on that one in the wiki ;^)
