[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/muxers: add entries for raw muxers
Anton Khirnov
anton at khirnov.net
Sun Apr 11 14:41:18 EEST 2021
Quoting Gyan Doshi (2021-04-11 13:12:47)
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> On 2021-04-11 16:30, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > Quoting Gyan Doshi (2021-04-11 12:52:18)
> >>
> >> On 2021-04-11 15:27, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >>> Am So., 11. Apr. 2021 um 08:41 Uhr schrieb Gyan Doshi <git at videolan.org>:
> >>>> ffmpeg | branch: master | Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> | Sat Apr 10 16:35:53 2021 +0530| [47b8871ca6f9da4c0467466a43d204dec7fcbd4a] | committer: Gyan Doshi
> >>>>
> >>>> doc/muxers: add entries for raw muxers
> >>> Is this really an improvement of our documentation?
> >> Yes, the aim is to attain complete coverage.
> > Why? Empty documentation is useless. Useless documentation is worse than
> > no documentation, because it wastes your time.
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> The document registers their existence and allows someone to discover
> their presence via web search. Most non-devs don't do `ffmpeg -muxers`.
Why would non-devs need that information?
> > - will get out of date quickly
>
> These elements change very slowly - there's hardly anything to change.
And no way to know which entries are outdate other than manually
checking them one by one.
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Anton Khirnov
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