[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] tty: disable extension matching

[wm4]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:52:09 +0000
Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On the other hand, I see no reasonable argument why libavcodec
> > should render text files as video. There are much better ways to view
> > text files.
> 
> FYI there is open bug report for ffmpeg to render ppt/doc/xls/etc files,
> 
> Want to write PS & PDF encoder?

Would PDFs be rendered as scrolling video too? Sounds like I'm making a
joke, but tty actually renders text files as scrolling terminal.