[FFmpeg-cvslog] ffmpeg: dont copy creation_time as the destination file is not created at that time

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:05:51PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2012, at 12:56, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:24:38AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> On 28 Jun 2012, at 17:30, git at videolan.org (Michael Niedermayer) wrote:
> >>> ffmpeg | branch: master | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> | Thu Jun 28 17:09:36 2012 +0200| [e377208d43d95d024cf1af3110036366ed4379c9] | committer: Michael Niedermayer
> >>> 
> >>> ffmpeg: dont copy creation_time as the destination file is not created at that time
> >> 
> >> Is creation time to be supposed the creation time of the file (seems pointless as the file system already has that) or of the content?
> >> Because in the latter case the old behaviour was the correct one.
> > 
> > what exactly do you mean by content ?
> 
> Well, when someone filmed a solar eclipse for example I'd always call the time of the solar eclipse the "content" creation time.
> Just re-encoding and probably even adding (and even more removing) an audio track wouldn't change it.
> Though I guess just never setting creation time by default should be ok, I just didn't find the reasoning in the commit message very convincing.

Maybe adding a -update_creation_date option or similar shouldn't require
much effort if it really is a problem.

-- 
Clément B.
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