[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] image2 and filename patterns

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:59:59PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Monday 2013-01-28 00:42:06 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:32:49AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > On date Sunday 2013-01-27 01:37:38 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> [...]
> > > > with %d and %p for picture number and timestamp they could be stored
> > > > in files with just a single %X and a sequence type it would not
> > > > work
> > > 
> > > this is slightly more complicate to support, since we would need to
> > > add support to an extended format (which recognized %t/%p). Also what
> > > should be the behavior in case t = NOPTS? How should we render for
> > > example out-%t.png?
> > 
> 
> > this question equally applies to any variant including your
> > suggestion. 
> 
> Yes, and?
> 
> I can add support to a generic pattern, which may accept %t or other
> variants, but the point about how to render NOPTS still holds.

you could print a warning and store the value as if it was any other
timestamp.
Not really a good idea but ive no better ATM

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