Hi, On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote:
> Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje <at> gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > > If this were all true, why don't you fork FFmpeg > and show us how it's done better? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum Seriously: No matter which fair I visit, the users > always tell the same story. They liked avconv > because it promised so many things that could be > improved in FFmpeg and quickly switched, but in > the end they had to switch back to FFmpeg: Not > necessarily because of the bugs (they could > backport the fixes) but because of the missing > APIs (like VDPAU). > > I mean of course this all sounds incredibly > promising and while I found it far too good to be > true when you originally suggested it I couldn't > know for sure - after all, you could have been > right and succeed with the promises made. But why > you are still suggesting the same thing after > four years of undeniable proof that it is not > working is beyond me... > You're suggesting "Libav went down *because* they tried to clean up the API", instead of "... *despite* ...". You provide no evidence for this distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc > I really don't understand why we don't spend > the time fixing real (user-reported) issues > instead of discussing how "clean" an api can > be... Because the two are not mutually exclusive. Also, Michael is not the only developer in this project. Ronald _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
