[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Adding support for OSX bundles to ffmpeg command line

[Chris Marrin]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 6:53 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> vmrsss <vmrsss at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Wouldn't it be simpler and more flexible to have an env var FFPRESETS
>> which, if set, overrides the standard ~/.ffmpeg and /usr/local/share/
>> ffmpeg preset locations?
>
> Not overrides, precedes.  The search order should be same as for any
> typical Unix application:
>
> 1. $FFPRESETS
> 2. ~/.ffmpeg
> 3. $prefix/share/ffmpeg
>
> I'm sure there some reason this wouldn't work on macos of course, it
> being from apple and all.  I don't know what these bundles are, let
> alone how they work.


Ah. So that's it. You hate Apple, so anything that helps ffmpeg work  
better on OSX is bad?  That's a dangerous attitude for a tool that  
purports to be a universal solution to video encoding. It's  
unfortunate you felt the need to bring prejudice into a technical  
discussion.

Being as this is my first attempt at submitting a patch to ffmpeg, I  
have to say that the response has been pretty disappointing and  
surprising. FFmpeg is a great tool with an active support community. I  
would have though the environment would be a bit less hostile. Oh,  
well. I still like the tool.

For the record, using an environment variable is a better solution  
(thanks to vmrsss for that). Maybe I'll try it at some point. But I  
don't really have any more time for patch submission, so for now I'll  
continue just using my existing customized version which is fine for  
my use case.

Thanks anyway...

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~Chris
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