On 6/15/2017 11:43 AM, wm4 wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:22:34 +0200 > Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > >> no, but that doesnt mean we can make false statments about other >> people or their work. >> >> Theres the moral wrong >> >> Theres the technical wrong, of not correctly stating the problem and >> that potentially affecting work on the problem >> >> Theres the social wrong. That is people who spend significant time on >> the CLI becoming offended and alienated by such statments. >> >> Theres the legal wrong, there are many people who worked on the CLI >> at some point. Anyone of them can probably sue us for defamation, >> but IANAL. I dont think that would help FFmpegs / our public image. > > I think you're blowing this out of proportion, as usual (I guess I > should sue myself because I've worked on ffmpeg.c too?). > > But my particular problem here is that some people just can't admit that > certain parts of the code are just bad, and that they actively fight > cleaning it up. Fuck that, I don't see any reason to hold back under > these circumstances. > > ffmpeg.c in particular is a vile POS. Whenever there is a problem, I > find half a dozen more problems, no clear way to fix it, and general > misery. If I want to try to find out how to do something specific with > ffmpeg.c, its help output is utterly useless and confusing, and I end > up reading the code. I guess it produces more stackoverflow traffic and > more need for ffmpeg specialists (especially when there's payment), so > I guess it has something good too.
Why did a patch to remove a warning from certain cases ended up in shit flinging I'll never know. But I'd very much like it if it stopped here. > >> A big part of the current CLI has btw been implemented by Libav >> developers, and merged into FFmpeg, other parts are very old code >> from times when FFmpeg was much simpler. > > Who mentioned Libav? _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
